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>>61871050
Some virtual machines software's can pass through USB and pci devices

hmm i also wonder now. try it faggot.

>>61871050
I kind of doubt it.

>>61871050
A better question would be what hardware would you even want to pass though to a windows 98 machine.

You want to emulate an old operating system and use old hardware for a reason, my guess would be gaming.
What graphics card from the 98 era would even be compatible with modern hardware capable of passing it though to a virtual machine

legacy pci slots are becoming rare these days, let alone on motherboards which house cpus capable of vt-d

I have a film scanner that only has XP drivers.

Tried in VirtualBox on Windows 7 host. Didn't work.

>>61871050
I tried installing 98SE on VirtualBox and failed miserably, but managed to do it in VMWare Player/Workstation Pro easily, so I'll use what I know.

I do know on the hardware of the intel side you need VT-x to run 64bit OSes as client, and VT-d for the passthrough of devices. The Haswell generation of CPUs and newer thankfully all include both those. Unfortunately, while I can confirm that Vmware allows passthrough of USB devices (unplugs from the Host and connects to the client), I don't know how it would work for graphics cards, since my haswell right is a mini-ITX, and therefore I do not have an aditional PCI-E slot.

I happen to have an X800GTO and a HD4890 and I want to use them for a 98SE and XP virtual build respectively, but I need to wait for an atx Asus Z97 AR for that to happen (only one I can find with 3 long PCI-e slots that's of the 1150 socket).

I recall that for the PCI you had to configure a file for vmware. For your case look around in the virtualbox forums and ask if you have to modify any file to configure the port you want to use for the scanner.

Good luck anon.

>>61872083
The only reason to use VirtualBox is if you need to network multiple VMs and don't want to pay for VMWare Workstation.

If it's a USB device,I would def try VMWare Player. Parallel port might be a dead end though.