A research laboratory relies on a 16-bit control application written for Windows 98. After upgrading the workstations to Windows 11 (64-bit), the program will not start. The lab supervisor asks a technician to keep the legacy software running on the same hardware without dual-booting or removing Windows 11. Which of the following solutions BEST meets this requirement?
Boot into the system's UEFI firmware shell and launch the legacy application from there.
Install a Type-2 desktop hypervisor (for example, VirtualBox) and create a Windows 98 virtual machine to run the application.
Enable Windows 11 compatibility mode for the executable and select "Windows 98."
Replace the workstation's NVMe SSD with an IDE hard drive formatted FAT16 and reinstall Windows 98 natively.
Type-2 desktop virtualization lets the technician install Windows 98 inside an isolated guest VM, providing the exact environment required by the 16-bit application while leaving Windows 11 intact. Windows compatibility mode cannot execute 16-bit code on 64-bit Windows 11 , replacing modern storage hardware does not address the OS incompatibility, and a UEFI shell cannot launch Windows 98 programs. Therefore, creating a Windows 98 virtual machine with a desktop hypervisor is the best option .
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