After a series of tests and comparisons with other users, they advised me to open a Bugtracker.
WINDOWS XP VBOX IMAGE PRO
I opened a post in the forum about a problem with the Guest Addition installation on Windows XP Pro SP3 32-bit.
WINDOWS XP VBOX IMAGE ISO
Once done, you’ll see the new VM in your VirtualBox Manager. Windows iso file for Oracle VM Virtual Box. The product key is now freely available: M6TF9-8XQ2M-YQK9F-7TBB2-XGG88. You can get a disk image for Windows XP SP3 here. The following screenshot illustrates the process: If you haven’t installed VirtualBox, see the notes here. The important part is that when it comes to creating a new Hard Disk, instead of creating a new virtual drive, we’ll use the VHD file we have created using Disk2vhd. The next step is to open Oracle VM Virtual Box manager and create a new Windows machine (in my case it was Windows 7). Once done, you’ll see VHD file created on your hard drive: Select the path where VHD file will be saved.After that I would boot up in safe mode, get to prompt you before loading each driver, see how far you get. Set up to work out of the box without further configuration. Did you also run MergeIDE before imaging the XP system Thats very important too, as is choosing a IDE disk controller (not SATA) in the VM settings.
File allocation and Size: By default, the VirtualBox will save all file of the machine on C: drive, if you want to change click on the folder icon and select the place. Right click on disk2vhd.exe and run it as administrator. It is because in case, tomorrow we want to run it under Windows Hyper-V, we can easily use the Windows XP VHD image. The next step is to use disk2vhd.exe to create VHD Image of a physical Windows machine. It is also assumed that a suitable virtual disk image (either VDI or VMDK for VirtualBox > 1.4) is already. Once done, physical Windows computer can be opened as a virtual machine by using Oracle VM VirtualBox.ĭownload Disk2vhd from Windows Sysinternals, at following URL: or directly from this url: įirst, we need to login onto a physical Windows machine that we are planning to clone.ĭownload the Disk2vhd.zip, once it is downloaded and unzipped, you’ll see the following files: The following article covers the process of converting a physical Windows computer into a VirtualBox virtual machine image in 3 easy to follow steps.