Windows 98 crashes during install

[Eddy Smith]

The Windows 98 setup stops/crashes with an "SUWIN caused a General Protection Fault in module <unknown>0B2F:D8E2'iSUWIN will close." and there are screen artifacts. The setup and install process worked fined on VirtualBox 4.3.28. This problem appeared after upgrading to VirtualBox 5.0.2

Edit: I was able to confirm that similar happens with Windows Me as well. I get screen artifacts and an "SUWIN caused a General Protection Fault in module <unknown>OAFF:E1A0A$SUWIN will close." on Windows Me.

[Insidious611]

Just commenting to confirm this happens to me too, on VirtualBox 5.0.16, when installing Windows ME.

Same exact issue, SUWIN caused a General Protection Fault in module <unknown>0B2F:D8E2 SUWIN will now close

The artifacting is also there (notably the setup logo is all black)

[Eddy Smith]

Also, I tried to run some Windows 98 and Me virtual machines. The Windows 98 and Me setup was run on these virtual machines when VirtualBox 4.3 was installed. They do run on VirtualBox 5.0 but I can see that the performance is slow the first time some programs/dialogs are run/displayed at times. I don't remember seeing this behavior in VirtualBox 4.3. Is this a separate problem or not? Is it possible that this is some sort of a hard drive caching issue? I don't know.

[Eddy Smith]

I get a similar error with the setup program for the original release of Windows 95 as well. The error is "SUWIN caused a Not Present Fault in module <unknown>0A77:A915alSUWIN will close." There are similar screen artifacts. I tried the setup program for the OEM second release of Windows 95 with USB support. There is no error and it just crashes with screen artifacts.

[Frank Mehnert]

Sounds like a duplicate of #14811. I know, this ticket is older but the other ticket contains more information. We think we found and fixed the issue, see there.