I think I found OS my solution...

[Silicate Wielder]

Okay, so I have Dosbox and I have the ISO downloading for win 98 here at the library, do you guys think that I could possibly run Windows XP, Vista, 2000, or ME on Dosbox? Its reported DOS version is 5.00

Dosbox version 0.74. Reported DOS version 5.00.'

I relized this is a better solution than having to wait 5 hours for Virtual machine to install and not be able to get it working, buy a copy of windows 7 and installing it over ubuntu, or taking the chance of installing Hackintosh. although it may end up being resource consuming, I just want my mom to let me be about installing windows and she seemed impressed when I got 3.1 running and that it didn't mess up my laptop. This may be my chance to change my moms mind.

[darkwoon]

Okay, so I have Dosbox and I have the ISO downloading for win 98 here at the library, do you guys think that I could possibly run Windows XP, Vista, 2000, or ME on Dosbox? Its reported DOS version is 5.00
ME, probably. The others, no - they are not based on a 16Bit DOS Kernel, but belong to the NT Kernel family.

I relized this is a better solution than having to wait 5 hours for Virtual machine to install and not be able to get it working,
If it takes you 5 hours to install an Xp-class base system under a VM like VirtualBox, then you really should ask yourself if your machine is powerful enough to that kind of exercise.

buy a copy of windows 7 and installing it over ubuntu
As a side-step, you could either install WINE (that allows many - but not all) Windows applications to be launched under Ubuntu, or split the hard disk in two, and install Windows alongside Ubuntu.

although it may end up being resource consuming, I just want my mom to let me be about installing windows and she seemed impressed when I got 3.1 running and that it didn't mess up my laptop. This may be my chance to change my moms mind.
Why not just telling her that the software you want to use doesn't run on the system currently installed?

As a side note, a VM is a poor choice for gaming, unless you plan on running old games (Pre-Xp era). For more recent ones, either WINE or dual-boot are your best options. I recommend VirtualBox - its installation is easy under Ubuntu, it performs well, and its compatibility with XP/2000/7 is high.

[ethanf93]

WINE sounds like your best option. Any NT based version of Windows will be totally incompatible with DOSBox (so NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7 are all out - they do not use DOS in any part of the system)

The others honestly I don't think would be better choices than WINE unless you have an interest in the old operating systems themselves. (I did not know you could actually get Windows 3.1 or other DOS loaded ones running in DOSBox)

As a side note, your computer may be able to emulate NT based kernels more efficiently than Windows 98. From my experience from a few years ago VirtualBox is not capable of running Windows 98 correctly. (Or you might have to find workarounds for some problems.)

[Silicate Wielder]

It takes me 5 hours to install VirtualMachine because of my Internet connection only having a speed of 15 KB/s and even if I did install it I never seem to be able to install any OS on it, it dosn't seem to detect any OS i try to install on it.

[darkwoon]

It takes me 5 hours to install VirtualMachine because of my Internet connection only having a speed of 15 KB/s and even if I did install it I never seem to be able to install any OS on it, it dosn't seem to detect any OS i try to install on it.
I admit I don't quite understand... You don't need an Internet connection to set up a VM - the VM manager (being VirtualBox, VMWare or any similar) is a regular application on the host.

I cannot say for more exotic systems, but neither VMWare nor VirtualBox need to "detect" an OS. It only needs to be able to read the guest OS installation disk(s) (usually a CD or DVD); most of the time, they can either access the real DVD drive directly, or you can mount an ISO image of the installation disk as a virtual DVD drive.

Here (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox) is an easy step-by-step tutorial on how to set up a VirtualBox VM. It tells about installing Ubuntu inside Xp, but it is rather trivial to adapt to installing Xp under Ubuntu. Don't forget to read this (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads) if you aren't sure on how to properly set up VirtualBox itself.

Hope this helps!