Hello, I'd like to ask for some guidance about whether something is doable and will be running effectively. If yes, I will try to tinker with it, if not, I will look for an alternative. Please note that I have no experience with virtualization whatsoever, but will happy to learn it on my own, if it actually solves my problem. 
1) Is it possible to run Win98 from within FreeBSD in a straight-forward way? ("Straight-forward way" – I mean, would setting it up be more or less straight-forward? Or does it require a long and painful configuration?)
2) If yes, will Win98 start up quickly on a 10-year laptop with i5 2.60 GHz? And approximately how much RAM will it use?
The background for my question is that I have a digital Polish dictionary that I absolutely love. It is from early 2000s and of course meant for Windows. I would like to have it available on FreeBSD.
I tried to run it from Wine, but unfortunately it didn't work. Wine does not understand DLL that the dictionary uses, even though (or maybe because...) I pointed Wine directly to the DLL.
I tried to read the binary file with the dictionary data, thinking of extracting it, but it is way too convoluted for me.
The brute-force solution would be to make a Python-script that browses "manually" through the entire dictionary on Windows (like an user would), copy-pastes each page, and prints it to a separate text file. Then I would write som scripts to move around these files from within FreeBSD or Linux in general. It will work, but is rather inelegant.
And suddenly I thought that maybe I could run the dictionary natively, that is, from Win98, but from within FreeBSD.
1) Is it possible to run Win98 from within FreeBSD in a straight-forward way? ("Straight-forward way" – I mean, would setting it up be more or less straight-forward? Or does it require a long and painful configuration?)
2) If yes, will Win98 start up quickly on a 10-year laptop with i5 2.60 GHz? And approximately how much RAM will it use?
The background for my question is that I have a digital Polish dictionary that I absolutely love. It is from early 2000s and of course meant for Windows. I would like to have it available on FreeBSD.
I tried to run it from Wine, but unfortunately it didn't work. Wine does not understand DLL that the dictionary uses, even though (or maybe because...) I pointed Wine directly to the DLL.
I tried to read the binary file with the dictionary data, thinking of extracting it, but it is way too convoluted for me.
The brute-force solution would be to make a Python-script that browses "manually" through the entire dictionary on Windows (like an user would), copy-pastes each page, and prints it to a separate text file. Then I would write som scripts to move around these files from within FreeBSD or Linux in general. It will work, but is rather inelegant.
And suddenly I thought that maybe I could run the dictionary natively, that is, from Win98, but from within FreeBSD.
