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Ah, I didn't know that, thank you very much! I tried searching the forum, but must've failed. Your tip about fullscreen worked! That's good enough for me 👌 If I don't use VBEMP, I cannot select > 16 color, 640x480, so that's a shame. Perhaps I can find another way, or another driver indeed. It's using: $ qemu-system-i386 -version QEMU emulator version 4.2.0 macOS 10.14.6 (18G3020), and Windows 98 Second Edition 4.10.2222A. Launched with: qemu-system-i386 \ -drive file=win95_disk.img,format=raw \ -cpu pentium \ -m 256 \ -boot c \ -vga std \ -nic none

After a bit of digging, I have discovered that setting my display settings to 16-color helps – now, the display doesn't jump at all when opening Command Prompt. When setting the screen to 256 colors, then opening command prompt, the screen gets somewhat distorted (the width and height of the QEMU window are stretched) but it's still usable. With higher color settings, it's unusable. Very strange! 🤔

Hi all! Much thanks to the members for helping me out with my previous question. I'm very happy with how my Windows 98SE installation works in QEMU! It's using the VBEMP.INF driver from https://bearwindows.zcm.com.au/vbe9x.htm, and mostly everything is fine. However, as soon as I open a command prompt (Start > Run > command) the display gets garbled. Reliably. Every time. The same way. I'm still able to save the day by hitting the windows key the 'u' and 'enter' to safely shut down, but this makes it really hard to run commands. Does anyone have any ideas? Unfortunately I don't even know where to begin debugging this issue. The attached screenshot shows before / after running command prompt.

That's an interesting approach, I might try that! However, I have an update. It turns out, that with an unchanged CUSTOM.INF and a slightly modified MSBATCH.inf: [System] Display="VBE Miniport" ; Comes from vbemp.inf Monitor="QEMU Monitor" DisplChar=24,1024,768 ; 16.7 million colors (24-bit) 1024 x 768 It actually works perfectly! BUT, only in Win 98SE. So for now, I think I'll proceed with my project using Win98... It's unfortunate that Win95 is making my life so hard! It also has an issue where if I mount the disk image in a Linux or macOS host to add files (such as a piece of software I'm developing), it (EDIT: appears to...) corrupts the disk so that Win95 under QEMU randomly reboots Win98SE also seems to not suffer from this problem. Very strange. But thanks for your knowledge, help, and pointers everyone!! 🙌

Hi! Thanks for responding! I just tried the following: Display=AnaPa Display="Anapa Corp." Display="VBE Miniport" (I found all those strings in VBEMP.INF), and unfortunately none of them seem to make any difference :(

I've downloaded the linked MSBATCH.INF, I'll have a careful look, thanks! I just have the .inf and .drv file for the graphics driver, I'm not exactly sure how to install them using Runonce.. I'm familiar with the idea of sticking a command in the registry to runonce, so I can definitely explore that avenue! To figure out how to do that, I had been googling things like "command to set windows 95 vga driver" or "install INF driver programatically" but hadn't yet turned up anything that looked useful. Thanks though, I'll have a look!

Hello there! This is my first post, so I hope I don't contravene guidelines 👋 I'm trying to script the setup of a Windows '95 installation in a Qemu virtual machine, using MSBATCH.INF and CUSTOM.INF. I have referred to a paper copy of the Windows 95 Resource Kit, which was helpful. However, I'm struggling with one aspect: I can manage to install the VBE VGA graphics adapter driver using CUSTOM.INF: [Version] signature="$CHICAGO$" [DestinationDirs] PreCopyFiles=2 ; Windows temp setup directory InfCopyFiles=17 ; Windows \inf directory [Custom_Precopy] CopyFiles=PreCopyFiles [PreCopyFiles] vbemp.inf [BaseWinOptions] InfCopy [InfCopy] CopyFiles=InfCopyFiles [InfCopyFiles] vbemp.inf [SourceDisksNames] 1="BEAR VGA", "", 0 [SourceDisksFiles] vbemp.inf=1 I can tell that works, because once I have booted up the virtual machine, I can right-click on desktop -> Properties -> Settings tab -> Advanced Properties -> "Change..." button to select a new VGA driver, and it's right there in the list, as in the screenshot. It works when I select it. However, I have been unable to get the Windows Setup to preselect it for me, and I'd love to be able to prepare a working Qemu image automatically! Here's what I put into the MSBATCH.INF file: (I've left out heaps of other settings, they don't seem relevant, and apart from this my MSBATCH.INF settings are picked up correctly). [System] Display = "VBE Miniport - Standard Graphics Adapter (VGA)" ; Display driver name comes from vbemp.inf DisplChar=24,1024,768 ; 16.7 million colors (24-bit) 1024 x 768 What can I be doing wrong? How can I debug what's happening? I hope my question makes sense, I'm new to slipstreaming, Windows emulation, etc