Before you install Windows XP on Virtual Box, make sure that you have enough time. The process will take at about 1 until 1.5 hours. It will depend on your machine.
Step 1. Run Create new Virtual machine.
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Run Virtual box.
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Click New.
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Press Next.
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Fill Name, for example ‘WindowsXP’ and select OS type ‘Windows XP’ and click ‘Next’ button.
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Set your memory. I have 1 GB memory, so I give 256MB for Windows XP. It’s basic need for Windows XP to run smoothly. Then click ‘Next’ button.
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Click ‘New’ to create a new virtual hard disk or ‘Existing’ if you have a virtual hard disk already.
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Click ‘Next’ button. There 2 types Image type. I recommend you to use ‘Fixed-size-image’. I’ve tried both images. Dynamically expanding image need less space at the beginning and flexible BUT it will reduce your Windows XP speed a lot even with a small application.
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Click ‘Next’ button. If you use Windows XP for running few applications, I suggest to use 5 GB. If you use a lot of applications to run on XP, dual boot is better options.
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Click ‘Next’ button.
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And click ‘Finish’ button. Virtual box will create 5 GB virtual drive in your hard disk space.
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Click ‘Next’ button to continue.
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Finally, click ‘Finish’ button. The location of your virtual drive is at /home/your_username/.VirtualBox/VDI.
If you are success then you will get the same screen like me.
Step 2. Setting your Virtual drive.
Before we go to step no. 2, I suggest to create a new directory for your shared folder. In this sample I named ‘VirtualBox_Shareddirectory‘.
Now, we go to step no. 2. In this step, you will mount all your device to your virtual drive.
First, select your virtual drive and click ‘Settings‘.
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Choose CD/DVD ROM and mark ‘Mount CD/DVD drive‘ then select your CD/DVD drive. Don’t OK button yet.
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Go to ‘Audio’ and click ‘Enable Audio’. Select your audio driver.
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Goto to ‘Serial Ports‘ and click ‘Enable Serial Port’.
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Goto to ‘Shared Folder‘. Click a folder icon (picture folder with green plus sign). Goto folder ‘VirtualBox_shareddirectory’ that we’ve created before. Click OK button to finish the process.
Now, we are ready to start the installation process for Windows XP.
Put the Windows XP CD installer into your CDROM. Cancel any messages from Windows XP installation disc.
To start the installation process, click ‘start‘.
Just follow all installation process until completely done.
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Great one!!!
hey can we boot win xp from hard disk like i saved it on hard disk.. or how to make it bootable
thx
There are 2 ways to run XP+Ubuntu.
– First, you can make Dual Booting.
– Second, you run XP under virtual machine like Virtual box.
great program! It was fairly easy to work with. I am just a little stumped by non usb support.. I checked it but it does not respond in windows.
Use this trick:
thank you . Great tutorial 🙂
same here… great tutorial
Thanks to your article, i can setup xp easily inside vista.
Merci !!!!!
Nice tutorial. As a supplement, a lot of people out there get stuck with their USB support. Just want to tell you that Virtualbox disabled this by default.
As a supplement to this article, here’s a solution I made with regards to enabling USB support:
http://stikiflem.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/enable-usb-support-in-virtualbox/
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Hi and thanks for a very god guide.
I got a problem anyway right when I klick Start and I have no idea how to do about permissions.
I hope you kan help me, sincerily Julio
The VirtualBox kernel driver is not accessible to the current user. Make sure that the user has write permissions for /dev/vboxdrv by adding them to the vboxusers groups. You will need to logout for the change to take effect..
VBox status code: -1909 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_ACCESSIBLE).
Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {1dea5c4b-0753-4193-b909-22330f64ec45}
thanks for the guide…very clear and easy to follow.
Im running Ubuntu 8.04(hardy). The open source VB didn’t work. I went to sun’s website: http://dlc.sun.com/virtualbox/vboxdownload.html and installed the appropriate VB for my OS.
after installing virtual box-2.1_2.1.4-42893_Ubuntu_hardy_i386.deb i followed the guide and it worked…
thanks again
it’s working thanks brooo ….
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I’ve Tried It But I Always Face A Problem Like This That Kernel Load Error. Can Give A Solution Of That
Nice. I have 2GB of ram on Kubuntu, so I’ll throw roughly 512MB/ram on XP.
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Very simple tutorial, worked like charm!
i have some trouble from this fatal error “FATAL: No bootable medium found ! System halted”
please help me to solved my trouble
regard
Akbar just check (ISO image file ) in setting -> CD-DVD ROM
then make iso copy of your CD and put the path .. it will run directly 🙂
I may suspect that it came from the CD OS installer that you want to install. VirtualBox could not find the OS, sent the error message and then halt the installation process.
Or it may came from your CDROM that can’t read the CD.
Thanks very much …
I did what u wrote but I use .iso instead of booting from cd (open solaris 🙂
thanks again
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I had to install Guest Files after install to see the share folder that you had us make at beginning. Maybe you should add that so people know how to connect to the folder.
Great tutorial was really easy.
Hi! Great tutorial, thanks!
I followed all the steps above in a Acer Aspire Netbook running Ubuntu 9.10 and all went well except that I dont get any audio.
Any ideas?
Really great !!
But how can we install an image file(.iso)….
🙂 i don’t undestand 🙂 1- 1,5 hour think but it took me like 20min on virtual box and it take 30 with cd.
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Does anyone know about security when doing this? I like how safe my Ubuntu system is. I don’t want Windows vulnerabilities affecting my host Ubuntu system. Can anything from inside the VirtualBox running Windows XP affect the host Ubuntu system ( viruses, spyware, etc )?
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Don’t know if you still check this but after completing step one, i dont have a cd/dvd rom on the left hand side? Did i do something wrong?
i have installed windows7 in virtualbox in ubuntu. how to mount c drive of windows drive in ubuntu