You my need an old windows 95/98 boot floppy to recognize the dvd rom. Of course you'd need a floppy drive to do that. I can't remember where I got an iso from, but I had one when I ran ME in a Virtual Machine a few years ago. But like Grizzly said, there are CPU and memory restrictions for 9.x versions of Windows. I had to set up the VM with a single core of my CPU and 512 MB of ram. But even then I needed a workaround to get at least 256 colors to display. I ended up piecing together an old Pentium 3 machine out of old parts I had, and a generous donation of a slot 1 motherboard from a friend.