--- title: "The Virtual OS Museum" url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-virtual-os-museum-35utwu7jw source_url: https://virtualosmuseum.org/ type: article source: "Hacker News" published: 2026-05-19T16:49:32.085Z updated: 2026-05-19T16:49:57.510Z tags: ["virtual-machine", "retrocomputing"] reading_time: 7 upvotes: 2 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Virtual OS Museum **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 7 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Virtual OS Museum is a downloadable Linux VM containing over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning from 1948 to the present day, all pre-configured and ready to run under QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM. A custom launcher handles one-click startup, snapshots for reverting broken installs, and automatic updates. The collection covers mainframes, minicomputers, Unix variants, home computers, personal OS history, mobile/embedded systems, and obscure research OSes — from the Manchester Baby to early Android. The project is the result of 20+ years of collecting by a single developer, aimed at making computing history genuinely accessible rather than theoretically runnable. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Virtual Museum Hosts Every OS You Haven’t Heard Of](https://daily.dev/posts/virtual-museum-hosts-every-os-you-haven-t-heard-of-j7awk9woi) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Virtual OS Museum lets you relive the glory days of Windows 3.1, DOS, PalmOS, and more](https://daily.dev/posts/the-virtual-os-museum-lets-you-relive-the-glory-days-of-windows-3-1-dos-palmos-and-more-7rtavnzaq) · XDA Developers · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Windows 95 changed computing forever, and the Virtual OS Museum is the best way to relive it](https://daily.dev/posts/windows-95-changed-computing-forever-and-the-virtual-os-museum-is-the-best-way-to-relive-it-qyaxpamiy) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Retrotechnology Media](https://daily.dev/posts/retrotechnology-media-utivbvekp) · Two Stop Bits · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Visual Operating System](https://daily.dev/posts/visual-operating-system-bueattoz1) · Hacker News · 4 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#virtual-machine](https://daily.dev/tags/virtual-machine), [#retrocomputing](https://daily.dev/tags/retrocomputing) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-virtual-os-museum-35utwu7jw)