It's also abbreviated as VBox or Oracle VM VBox Sun Microsystems bought the company and when Oracle acquired Sun, they re branded it as one of their Oracle VM suite of products. It's virtualization software created by a company called, innotek GmbH based in Germany. Start Virtual Box and creating a virtual machineĭownload and install extension packs and VBox Guest Additions ISOīefore we start, let's have have a look at what is Oracle VM VirtualBox. I will go through this and show you how to use it afterwards.ĭownload and install Oracle VM VirtualBox. There are some extra software that you need to install that very few people know about. I will also show you how to install the operating system in the VM.
From there, click 7-Zip > Open archive > Cab to open the EXE file in the 7-Zip File Manager.In this section, I will go through the installation of Oracle VM VirtualBox and how to install a virtual machine.Once 7-Zip is installed, locate your Windows XP installer file in Windows File Explorer, then right-click the file. If your PC doesn’t already have it installed, download and install 7-Zip before you proceed.This XP installer is only supported by Windows 7, so we’ll need to extract the files you’ll need from it to get XP to run on Windows 10. If the file is no longer hosted on Microsoft, you can download it from CNET. If your PC is ready, download the Windows XP Mode EXE file from the Microsoft website (named WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe).The operating system you use will also need to be supported by VirtualBox, the software we’ll be using to run Windows XP. You can use another operating system, but these instructions have been designed with Windows 10 in mind. To begin using your Windows XP virtual machine, you’ll need to use a PC running Windows 10, with virtualization enabled in the BIOS or UEFI settings. Downloading Windows XP and Extracting Installation Files
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