The lack of good high-res drivers has been a pain whenever I wanted to run old versions of Windows in QEMU/virt-manager.
Will this work in there as well or is this a VirtualBox only driver?
Will this work in there as well or is this a VirtualBox only driver?
(Unfortunately, Sound Blaster 16 emulation is known to be broken in combination with the Gtk UI[3], so no / choppy sound for you, but things should work over SPICE. I’ve yet to find a SPICE client that will maintain a fixed 2:1 display scale with no interpolation.
A helpful HN user described[4] how to enable SMB1 on recent versions of Samba and so share files over something other than floppy images, TFTP, or active FTP. I haven’t found a better way to do this with QEMU’s native Samba integration than launching it, then finding the generated smb.conf somewhere in /tmp and patching it.)
[1] https://bearwindows.zcm.com.au/vbe9x.htm
[2] https://bearwindows.zcm.com.au/vbemp.htm
I haven't had much trouble with the virt-manager GUI in terms of sound. For Win2K I could install the server edition and remote into it over RDP if it ever becomes an issue.
Another emulation option is Bochs. I haven't played with it in years though.
Still solid options for anyone else looking into more accurate emulation of old machines, though, these two pieces of software can get keep that thirty year old piece of legacy software running for at least another decade or so!