While I question the validity of the user agreement in this modern age, you must agree to it to proceed regardless. Before we even try touching the internet, we really kinda need this. This is the last 'Officially supported' version of internet explorer for win9x. You can get it from (because Microsoft does not have it available anymore) here: First things first, we install IE 6 service pack 1.

Since TCP networking is already configured and working (I used my NAS to get the VBE driver into the vm! ) Let's just focus on the needful to get this thing sorta half-assed on the internet. Straight away, it looks like the installer successfully found the emulated AMD PCNet family ethernet card, and installed TCP/IP and pals, automagically. Straight from a fresh install, aside from the above (and pushed to 32bit color!), we have our lovely Windows98 second edition desktop. It does not do windows accelleration, has no 3D support whatsoever, and its only claim to fame is that it will give you high color modes on generic SVGA hardware, using the VESA bios in the card/TSR.) It could conceivably be paired with the free Scitech Display Doctor. (It is for people who either have a card that has a Vesa Bios but no windows (9x) drivers, or for situations where you need a universal display driver that does more than 16 colors. If you are interested in it, it is an old project called VBEMP, and you can find it here:) (Because it looks awful to use 16 color VGA, I have installed a generic VESA based display driver for use with this VirtualBox VM. Namely, getting an old windows 98 system up and talking on the internet.

By request, here is a nice graphical how-to on how to do something you should never do.

Windows 98 virtualbox image