Windows 98 Guest Installation Error on an Intel CPU

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I can't install Windows 98 Guest, even on an Intel CPU. (I will list all specifications in the end)

After restarting with CTRL + ALT + DEL,

After millions of errors about Windows Update, It finally directs me to Windows (and after restarting again), There are more popup errors, Although I don't know if it's related to this problem.

Even more Errors!

 

After about 8 errors of Runonce, It ended up with a light blue background, without explorer.exe. After restarting (again.), It now only shows up with explorer.exe error (below), Making the guest COMPLETELY unusable. 

Host Specifications

OS : Windows 10 x64 21H1 

CPU : 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400F @ 2.60GHz

RAM/Memory : 32.0GB

SSD : WDC PC SN530 SDBPNPZ-512G-1032

HDD : ST2000DM008-2FR102

Graphics : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Is there any solution for this? Instead of opening an installed virtual machine?

[ender_ · Accepted solution]

Modern CPUs are too fast for Win9x, which leads to problems like you're seeing (I see a similar Explorer crash when starting my Win98 VM that I installed years ago).

The certificate errors you're seeing are due to certificate revocation lists either not existing any more, or using protocols that aren't supported by the ancient OS.