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1. #Dosbox windows 3.1 setup install#
2. #Dosbox windows 3.1 setup driver#

If the networking works, try an FTP server you can connect to from within the virtual machine.VirtualBox Guest Additions don't support any version of Windows older than Windows 2000/XP, so shared folders won't work. The Legacy PC Project - guides for installing MS-DOS and Windows for Workgroups on old PCs.

#Dosbox windows 3.1 setup install#

Instead, download all the components and install it yourself. I'm no longer hosting the bundled tarball that contains all the files + a VirtualBox preinstalled disk image to clean up disk space on my server.

#Dosbox windows 3.1 setup driver#

Find a video driver that supports more than 16 colors (more info here).Disable hardware virtualization (in the System/Acceleration tab in the VM settings).Start Windows in standard mode ( win /s).If you have issues with erratic mouse movement within Windows 3.1 on VirtualBox, some solutions are (from here): If you want to download the components separately (DOS, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and the drivers) you can find individual links on my MS-DOS page. Sometimes you'll have to go to the previous disk instead. When you get a "Can't read file" error, you'll usually swap in the next numbered disk and hit enter. Windows 3.1 can still be installed from these images, it will just require more disk juggling. I got ahold of this version of Windows 3.1 from a CD image instead of floppies, so I had to convert them to floppy images myself, and not all the files fit on all the disks (there should only be 6 disk images but there's 7 in this tarball). The version of Windows in this tarball is 3.1 - not Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (for that, download it separately from my MS-DOS page).