Virtualbox and old Windows
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
I think it's always cool to once in a while boot your old computer inside your new one, just to keep track of the old stuff you've done.
So here is a tip on how to run Windows XP for free inside Virtual Box.
Import Windows XP Mode into VirtualBox #while maintaining product activation:
- Download Windows XP Mode (WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe | MD5: bf3726d684d3acb98185665123c9efcf)
- Extract xpm from WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe with a file archiver like PeaZip Portable.
- Add .rar extension to xpm
- Extract VirtualXPVHD from xpm.rar
- Add .vdi extension to VirtualXPVHD
- Create new machine in VirtualBox, specifying VirtualXPVHD.vdi as the hard disk
- Once initial setup is complete, uninstall Virtual PC Integration Components from Add/Remove Control Panel
- Install Guest Additions (Devices > Install Guest Additions...)
- Shut down virtual machine
- Download pcbios.bin (MD5: 12ccdc652b30c6d1e307c6f7deff5d24) from VMLite and copy to a directory on host computer (e.g., C:\vm\)
- "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxMange.exe" setextradata vm-name "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/BiosRom" "c:\vm\pcbios.bin"
Got this step-by-step from here: http://tinyapps.org/blog/windows/201210210700_xp_mode_virtualbox.html
If your games start bugging, activate the Stretch after the Guest Addition installation, and everything will run fine.
If you are looking onto Windows 3.11 and MS-DOS, well, just download those from the web and install them in a clean machine. On my case I couldn't get Windows 3.11 to auto boot after the installation, so when my machine start, I type win [enter].