Virtualbox - how do I add cd drive and graphics drivers?

[yoda313]

Ok I gave up on virtual pc 2007 and checked out virtualbox. Works great. I got freedos installed on it no problem and even was able to install windows 98 on my VISTA pc without dualbooting.

HOWEVER I can't figure out how to get my cd drive to read inside the virtual machine. I understand the mounting as that is how I got it installed. But I can't seem to make the cd drive appear in the my computer in the windows 98 screen. My questions are:

1. How do I get the cd/dvd drive to be recognized inside the windows 98 virtual machine?

2. How do I get my nvidia 8400 to play directx games in windows 98?

3. How do I get shared folder access in the virtual machine so I don't have to do iso stuff or burn cds?

4 - not critical but how could I get internet access inside the windows 98 virtual machine?

5. How do I get sound to work in the virtual machine?

Thanks for any advice. I think I am just missing something simple but since this is my first time working with virtual machines of thic complexity I'm flying blind (well I did fool around with doxbox but that wasn't much - I have now installed windows on a virtual machine and that is much more complex).

ALso I do know there are guest additions for the virtualbox but I don't know how to install those or where to get specific drivers for them. Thanks.

EDIT - I read the user guide and there isn't guest addition support for win98. I think I will try and install win2000 and see how it goes. I think 2000 had more backward compatibility with my lucasarts games then xp or vista has. This was a learning experience at least. I will keep my iwn98 setup since I actually got it working.

EDIT 2 - Well my win2000 installlation went smoothly. Once it finished I had cd drive acces! I can even use the interent through it! Wow this is pretty versital. I know have win2000 on a dual core amd My only two things now are to get sound and graphics working. I can actulaly do1024x768 res but I need to get 3d driver support.

[jagabo]

Win98 didn't come with drivers for CD/DVD and NIC. You need to find DOS drivers for the CD (generic ones should work) and add MSCDEX to the AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS. I don't remember of you need DOS or Win98 drivers for the NIC.

[yoda313]

Thanks jagabo.

Actually I'm temporarily abandoning win98 and going with win2000. The integration is better. THough I'm still on the hunt for sound and graphics drivers for virtualbox.

[jagabo]

Thanks jagabo.

Actually I'm temporarily abandoning win98 and going with win2000. The integration is better. THough I'm still on the hunt for sound and graphics drivers for virtualbox.

I don't know how well those old games will run on W2K. I play a few of old DOS games using DosBox.