Draft:Recommended VM configurations


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This page provides recommended configurations for installing builds in a specific emulator or hypervisor. This page is by no means exhaustive, and your mileage may vary, so you may have to adjust some settings to your liking as it sees fit.

Windows
For early DOS-based Windows releases (Windows 1.0, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1x), Windows 9x releases (Windows 95, Nashville, 98, and Me), and early Windows NT releases (Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5x, NT 4.0, Neptune, and 2000), it is recommended to use 86Box to install these builds.

For later versions of Windows (Windows XP and above), VMware, VirtualBox or Hyper-V are recommended to use.

Use QEMU for Windows for the ARMv7 and ARM64v8 architectures. QEMU can also be used to run most MIPS builds of Windows.

Curerntly, there are no known emulators that can run Windows for the PowerPC and DEC Alpha architechtures.

NeXTSTEP / Apple Rhapsody
Currently, only the x86 versions of the NeXTSTEP and the Apple Rhapsody developer releases can be run. There are no known emulators that can boot the m68k/SPARC/PA-RISC/PPC versions of NeXTSTEP or the Apple Rhapsody developer releases. As a result, only NeXTSTEP 3.1 and above can be run in virtualization software.

Either 86Box or VirtualBox can be used to get an optimal install of NeXTSTEP or Apple Rhapsody.