Windows protection error virtualbox

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. You've probably allocated hardware that's beyond what Windows 95 knows what to do with. Improve this answer. You're right; I do have a 2.

The support article you linked applies to both Windows 95 and Windows 98 Standard Edition, but my Windows 98 virtual machine is Windows 98 Second Edition. But the error that is specified there is different from my error. The reason of course is simple, the software being written today is attempting to allow full virtualization of your hardware, which means it knows the true frequency of your CPU.

I am sure in 20 years there will be a question that exists trying to get Windows 7 to work within a VPC. Sort of like the fact there are meaningless memory limits on the desktop versions x64 Windows installations. The limits make sense, they limits are barely possible today with today's hardware, in 20 years not so much. Here's an alternative way to install it: What you need: DOS on a floppy or on an image.

EXE and oakcdrom. Type: edit autoexec. Doktoro Reichard 5, 5 5 gold badges 33 33 silver badges 41 41 bronze badges. In the future, try to present your answers in a more formatted and clear way.

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Yeah, I thought your post was spam because of the link at the bottom. RAM has to be lower than MB. Adjust it. CPU slower than 2.

Re: Windows 95 by aks » Sun Aug 23, pm Thank you francescocariati! Thank you for taking the time to post a solution. Re: Windows 95 by Me » Mon Jan 25, pm I tried the patch and on the second restart after finishing setup it says only this. Nothing else: "Windows protection error. Does anyone want to help? Re: Windows 95 by mpack » Mon Jan 25, pm If you are still getting "Windows Protection Error" then the most likely explanation is that you did not complete the patch.

If you believe otherwise then start your own topic, point out that you already applied the patch, and include a zipped VM log file. Select "Show Log" and save "VBox. Re: Windows 95 Protection Error by mpack » Tue Mar 12, pm Not possible with accuracy until you provide the file I asked for in my previous post.

Yours should be similar. BAT file to go with it. I will not answer many questions about this: you should be able to find plenty of online resources about configuring DOS. You are booting from a floppy, so I wouldn't think so.