Once the installation is done, just reboot your system. Open My Computer and double-click on the Virtual Box Guest Additions drive. Once the installation is done, click on the Devices -> optical and select VBoxGuestAdditions.ISO file. Soon the setup will start copying the files. Let’s the default 10GB select because it is enough. Windows XP can run perfectly fine at 512MB, for better performance use 1GB where the CPU core can be one or two. Also, Change the hostname to whatever you would like to use. Change them with whatever you want to set for your user account on Windows XP.Īlso, paste the product key available on the same page from where you have downloaded the Win XP ISO image. Under Unattended Guest OS Install Setup, the default username (vboxuser) and password (chnageme) will be given. Select “ Other…” and then navigate to your downloaded Windows XP ISO image from .Īfter that simply click on the Next button. And then click on the Arrow icon given at front of the ISO image option. Name your virtual machine – Windows XP or whatever you want. New VirtualBox version allows unattended installation of Windows XP. Follow the installation wizard and it will be on your Oracle Virtualbox to experience.Save it and Start the Virtual Machine and the Windows XP boot menu will appear.Navigate and select the downloaded windows XP ISO file.Click on the empty CD icon and then again from the attributes select the CD icon.Click on the Settings option from the menu.

Select the created Windows XP virtual Machine appearing on the left side of the VirtualBox main screen.

Create a Virtual Hard disk (VHD) and set RAM.

Type the name of the OS -Windows XP and the rest will be set by default.

Run the VirtualBox and click on the NEW button to create a new Virtual Machine.

Install Oracle VirtualBox on your Windows 10/8/7 PC.

For links see the main step 1 of this article.

Download the Windows XP ISO file and copy the license key as well and save it on a notepad.

However, the steps will be the same for Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista.

Here is a glance at the steps we are going to follow for the installation of Wind ows XP Virtual Machine using ISO file on VirtualBox running on Windows 10. Step 8: Installing Windows XP Windows XP virtual machine on VirtualBox

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