Verify your information and Click Continue.
then select your next Windows 3.11 floppy image file.Īfter that the setup will reboot to a more graphical style and ask for your name, company and product number (use your windows 3.11 product number ) When the setup asks for disk 2, click on devices in the menu bar again then -> Floppy Devices -> Choose a virtual floppy disk file. On the next screen choose the Express Setup with the enter key (the express setup is usually fine). Hit enter to setup Windows for Workgroups 3.11. The Windows for Workgroups 3.11 setup screen will appear. then select your first Windows 3.11 floppy image file.Īt the C:\> prompt, give the command "A:\" and enter the command 'setup' once the prompt A:\> will appear and hit enter. Now that MS-DOS is installed we can start to run the Windows 3.11 setup.Ĭlick on devices in the menu bar again then -> Floppy Devices -> Choose a virtual floppy disk file. When the setup is done, remove the floppy disk from the virtual drive, and press ENTER.Īfter the reboot the MS-DOS 6.22 prompt will be loaded. then select your next MS-DOS 6.22 floppy image file. When the MS-DOS setup asks for Setup Disk #2, you have to load the next MS-DOS Floppy image.Ĭlick on devices in the menu bar again, then -> Floppy Devices -> Choose a virtual floppy disk file. When the MS-DOS setup is running again you can follow the instructions on screen for installing MS-DOS. When the A:\> prompt will appears, give the command "format c:" and enter the command "setup" once formatting is done. If the formatting hangs on 0%, then you have to reboot the virtual machine (right ctrl + R) and hit F8 until you see the following screen: Next, hit Enter to reboot your virtual machine.Īfter the reboot MS-DOS will format the virtual hard disk. Next Choose: Configure Unallocated disk space.
Hit Right Ctrl + R or use the menu bar -> Machine -> Reset to reboot the virtual machine.Īfter the reboot VirtualBox loads the floppy Image and it will show the MS-DOS setup screen. then select your first MS-DOS 6.22 floppy image file. In the menu bar click on devices then -> Floppy Devices -> Choose a virtual floppy disk file. Now that your virtual machine is running you will get the following message: You can see Windows 3.11 as a graphical shell that depends on MS-DOS architecture. Now that this is finished you can start the virtual machine. A new window will popup, select: leave empty. Right click on the new virtual machine, then Settings, under Storage click: Add floppy controller.Īdd the newly added controller click on the green plus(+). Hit Next, then two times Create to create the virtual machine.īefore you start the virtual machine you have to add a floppy controller. Use the default disk size of 1,00 Gigabyte (MS-DOS 6.22 can only recognise hard disks up to 2.1 GB) If you like, you can give the virtual disk another name or location. Use the default file type: VDI (Others may also work).īy storage details use the option you like (I used Dynamically allocated) Under version select: Windows 3.1.īy memory use the default Base memory size of 32 megabyte. By OS Type select the Operating System: Microsoft Window. Now that we have created the floppy images we can start to configure VirtualBox.Ĭreate in VirtualBox a new virtual machine with the name Windows 3.11 or any name you like.
To create the images I used the program UltraISO from:
My present pc no longer has a floppy disk drive, so I used an old pc to create floppy images (.IMA) from my old floppy's. But should probably work on other hosts as well.įor this tutorial I used my 3.5-inch floppy disks of MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11.
This tutorial was tested on the hosts Windows 7 SP1 and Linux (Ubuntu 11.04).
Tutorial: Installing Windows For Workgroups 3.11 (Windows 3.11) on VirtualBox with full driver support.įor this Tutorial VirtualBox has to be installed (correctly) on your computer.