I've built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
Posted by andreww591@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 21 comments
Today I am releasing the Virtual OS Museum, which is the world's first multi-platform interactive virtual museum of operating systems and standalone applications, implemented as a Linux VM.
Nearly all well-known OSes and platforms (and many obscure ones) are included in some form, spanning the entire history of stored-program computing from the 1948 Manchester Baby to the present day. This is the result of over 20 years of collecting emulators and VM images; over 1700 VM installations are included, across over 250 platforms, representing nearly 600 distinct OSes.
I have put a lot of effort into making this readily accessible; all OSes and emulators are pre-installed, and a cross-emulator graphical launcher with a snapshot feature to revert VM installations to a working state is included. Shortcuts to run the OS museum VM on Windows, macOS, and Linux are included (and it is possible to run it on pretty much anything that runs QEMU or VirtualBox).
sophiabraxas@reddit
this is the greatest thing ever. thank you so much, I'm speechless
Teghendion@reddit
Is there a list of all operating systems in the Virtual OS Museum?
DramaticProtogen@reddit
yeah, i'd like a list without having to download the whole thing
theotherkiwi@reddit
...and the server is down....
phocksx@reddit
Magnet link for the full zip: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:24badf9996920185291b39f209cd820aa87fda0d&dn=virtual_os_museum-2026.05.19-full.zip&ws=http%3a%2f%2fdownloads.virtualosmuseum.org%2fvirtual_os_museum-2026.05.19-full.zip&ws=https%3a%2f%2fdownloads.virtualosmuseum.org%2fvirtual_os_museum-2026.05.19-full.zip
siliconsandwich@reddit
predictably, trying to serve 120GB direct downloads to the public has gone very well indeed.
hopefully someone will get a full copy before it gets its first copyright pull.
UPGRADED_BUTTHOLE@reddit
Torrents are the solution!!!
siliconsandwich@reddit
precisely, butthole. precisely.
DangKilla@reddit
Now create VM’s!
UPGRADED_BUTTHOLE@reddit
Nice! Can you make a torrent of the files? Your server is overloaded, and p2p is the only solution imo
P1L07@reddit
This is awesome. Definitely a labor of love. Thank you for sharing this.
someblokeonhere@reddit
This is cool but you are gonna have legal issues on your hands very quickly.... Sometimes it's better to relive the past with screenshots http://toastytech.com/guis/index.html
InformationPast3442@reddit
Mindblowing project! Please add a torrent link for downloading.
Marwheel@reddit
Wonder when Domain/OS will be included? Been wanting to try and document the "AEGIS" environment of it, but trying to install it with success has always eluded me as of late.
dukdukgoos@reddit
Neat! I'd like to try it but as many have said needs a torrent or something to allow for efficient downloading.
Also, I'm interested if it would be possible to run the guest VMs directly rather than from inside the host VM with the menu system.
secondhandoak@reddit
Really nice but is there a theme selector for the interface? I find the fonts/colors difficult to read.
ChocolateSpecific263@reddit
you need tell the ai you used to create it to optimize for performance
NorthernPlastics@reddit
Absolutely awesome work, thank you for sharing with us! Looking forward to trying it out though I fear your servers are melting at the moment with all of us trying to download either version. Will try again later.
leomoreno@reddit
Wow, just wow. Will share this with my IT students going forward. Tried to download, will come back when someone hosts or seeds.
atomicham@reddit
Wow!! This looks amazing. I’ll try it out this week. What a culmination of hard work and effort. Thank you for sharing with the community.
syxa@reddit
insane project great work!