Virtualbox Install Windows Xp

[Paula Shuffleburg]

VirtualBox is kind of a hypervisor that provides us with an environment to run multiple virtual operating systems like Windows, Linux, etc at the same time. A virtual operating system provides us free to use the operating system free of cost to test our newly created software before running it on our actual operating system. If not for virtualization, we would have been required to buy a new computer to run a new operating system which would have been costly. But with virtualization, we can run multiple operating systems on the same machine. Here we will try to run a Windows 10 operating system on our Virtual Box as a guest machine.

Download Virtual box from here. Select your host according to your operating system. For example, people having Windows Host will select Windows hosts from the link given below. For further reference, the installation of virtual box on windows can be understood.

After setting up your Virtual Box, Search Microsoft Windows Evaluation 10 and download Windows 10 ISO file from microsoft.com (free trial only available for 90 days). Then fill up all the requirements and click on Continue to download it. Note that you have to register before moving to the ISO file download page as shown below.

Start the installation of the Windows 10 operating system. Select a name, then the type as MS Windows and the version as Windows 10(64-bit) with respect to the machine used. Then provide memory according to our RAM size preferably 2-4GB and then leave the Hard disk file type as VDI, then select the virtual hard disk size, and you are done as shown below

Then provide memory according to our RAM size preferably 2-4GB. We have selected here 1GB which is 1024MB for demonstration purposes but on your computer, we would prefer to allocate at least 2048MB of memory.

believe me I dislike Windows, but is not because I love it somuch that I need to have a windows container. My company heavily relies on Windows, that is not going to be matter of hours/days to move our products to a platform independent env.

If you must deploy a hypervisor, WSL2 or Hyper-V is a mess to deploy on a windows box that is nested in ESXi is a mess, and a real pain to get up and running. Virtualbox with Docker Toolbox maybe a valuable option here is the github.

Good post @rimelek !

Yes, shortly after I made that post I realized that docker toolbox is no longer supported by docker. Therefore I gave in and deployed Hyper-V with WSL2 (not sure if both are needed or not). Here are the instructions and links I followed to get it all done:

I have never used QEMU on Windows. Only on Linux with KVM, but I used UTM on MacOS to install a Linux OS and install Docker. UTM is based on QEMU. It worked but the performance will depend on your machine.

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My Windows 10 machine was automagically updated today. Looks like the "Windows 10 Anniversary update" When I restarted Virtualbox my server with a bridged adapter showed same as OP. I tried rerunning the VirtualBox installer (it did a Repair) - that did not fix the issue. I tried running the installer again as Admin (it did a Repair) - that did not fix. I ran the installer and selected UnInstall, then ran it again to Install. And the Network adapter settings looked good. Server started and connected to my network as usual. Whew.Hope this helps someone.

You should now be able to restart VirtualBox, select bridged adapter for your network configuration for your virtual machine, and now names should populate in the Names dropdown; select your primary connection and you should be good to go now.

Enable "Windows 8" compatibility for VirtualBox executable:right-click on VirtualBox shortcut>Properties: in Properties dialog box: switch to "Compatibility" tab, under "Compatibility mode" section, select the check box next to: "Run this program in compatibility mode", make sure "Windows 8" is selected in combo box. click Ok, run VirtualBox again!(it's not needed to run as Administrator)

Install "vbox-ssl-cacertificate.crt" certificate from %userprofile%\\.virtualbox\ and then reboot. If you don't have .virtualbox folder - launch "Oracle VM VirtualBox" once and this folder will appear.

(this is my opinion but not tested on how to remove previous version by install VirtualBox-5.0.0_RC1-100731-Win.exe with select all function to install its will fault and rollback all, then its same as uninstall)

Open "Device Manager", you can use search bar to get this, under "Network adapters" then Right Click "VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter" select "Update Driver Software" select "Search automactic" wait until its finish

When using a bridged connection you are bridging the virtual network of the guest (VM) to the physical network device of the host (Windows 10). The host physical device then assigns the IP address and manages the network connection of the guest OS (VM).

What you need to check. On Windows 10 (host), go to Control Panel/Network and Internet/Network Connections, right click the physical device that you are trying to bridge to on your guest OS (VM) and make sure that "VirtualBox NDIS6 Bridged Networking Driver" and "Brdige Driver" are enabled.

Note:The bridge connection choice in the guest (VM) VirtualBox settings and the phsyical device name are the same...Also, you may find that inactive / disabled network devices on the host will not show in the host (windows 10) until you connect to them i.e. ethernet cable to a LAN port.

placing the WIFI as the first adapter [MTDesktop, AllowALL] and the LAN WIRED [MTServer,AllowAll] as the second adapter.In the Guest machine I disable the First Adapter in Adapter Settings. I can then ping internal, external whatever.

Virtual Box gives a lot of issues when it comes to bridge adaptor. I had the same issue with Virtual Box for windows 10. I decided to create VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet adapter. But I again got issues while creating the host-only ethernet adaptor. I decided to switch to vmware. Vmware did not give me any issues. After installing vmware (and after changing few settings in the BIOS) and installing ubuntu on it, it automatically connected to my host machine's internet. It was able to generate it's own IP address as well and could also ping the host machine (windows machine). Hence, for me virtual box created a lot of issues whereas, vmware worked smoothly for me.

Two line answer: For wired connections it will work smoothly, for wireless turn on 'Promiscious mode' if your wireless adapter does not support promiscious mode, here is the link to workaround. Also visit offical oracle virtualbox documentation to see more details here on using bridged connection over wifi.

For my case, I uninstall the VirtaulBox, and install by click on the VirtualBox and run as administrator. After the installation, you can observe that the Bridge Network and USB connections both will be working.

I use VirtualBox frequently to create virtual machines for testing new versions of Fedora, new application programs, and lots of administrative tools like Ansible. I have even used VirtualBox to test the creation of a Windows guest host.

Never have I ever used Windows as my primary operating system on any of my personal computers or even in a VM to perform some obscure task that cannot be done with Linux. I do, however, volunteer for an organization that uses one financial program that requires Windows. This program runs on the office manager's computer on Windows 10 Pro, which came preinstalled.

This financial application is not special, and a better Linux program could easily replace it, but I've found that many accountants and treasurers are extremely reluctant to make changes, so I've not yet been able to convince those in our organization to migrate.

This set of circumstances, along with a recent security scare, made it highly desirable to convert the host running Windows to Fedora and to run Windows and the accounting program in a VM on that host.

The physical computer already had a 240GB NVMe m.2 storage device installed in the only available m.2 slot on the motherboard. I decided to install a new SATA SSD in the host and use the existing SSD with Windows on it as the storage device for the Windows VM. Kingston has an excellent overview of various SSD devices, form factors, and interfaces on its web site.

That approach meant that I wouldn't need to do a completely new installation of Windows or any of the existing application software. It also meant that the office manager who works at this computer would use Linux for all normal activities such as email, web access, document and spreadsheet creation with LibreOffice. This approach increases the host's security profile. The only time that the Windows VM would be used is to run the accounting program.

Before I did anything else, I created a backup ISO image of the entire NVMe storage device. I made a partition on a 500GB external USB storage drive, created an ext4 filesystem on it, and then mounted that partition on /mnt. I used the dd command to create the image.

I installed the new 500GB SATA SSD in the host and installed the Fedora 32 Xfce spin on it from a Live USB. At the initial reboot after installation, both the Linux and Windows drives were available on the GRUB2 boot menu. At this point, the host could be dual-booted between Linux and Windows.

Now I needed some information on creating a VM that uses a physical hard drive or SSD as its storage device. I quickly discovered a lot of information about how to do this in the VirtualBox documentation and the internet in general. Although the VirtualBox documentation helped me to get started, it is not complete, leaving out some critical information. Most of the other information I found on the internet is also quite incomplete.

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