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Tips and Warnings. Related Articles. Part 1. Download VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a virtual machine created by Oracle. Virtual machines are programs that emulate a computer system. You can install an operating system on a virtual machine and run it inside another computer. Click Windows hosts below "VirtualBox 6. Click the VirtualBox installation executable. Click Next on the title screen to continue. Click the checkbox next to any custom installation items you want and click Next.
Click Browse to select an install location and click Next. It is recommended you install the virtual machine at its default location. Don't change the install location unless you know what you are doing. Click Yes to acknowledge it may temporarily disconnect your internet. Click Install. Download the VirtualBox expansion pack.
This expansion pack enables USB 3. Scroll down and click All supported platforms below "VirtualBox 6. Scroll down to the bottom of the text and click I agree. Download a macOS disk image. You will need an image file for macOS. Below are two different download links for macOS Extract the macOS image file.
After you download macOS, you will need to extract the image file. You can do so using an archive program like WinRAR. Open the zip file in your web browser or Downloads folder. Then click Extract all or whichever option extracts the entire contents of the zip file.
Be sure to save the contents to a location that you can remember. Part 2. Create a new virtual machine in VirtualBox. VirtualBox has an icon that resembles a computer screen in the shape of a cube. Click New below the blue icon that resembles a circle with jagged edges.
Type a name for the new computer next to "Name". Click the arrow pointing down next to "Machine Folder" and select a folder to install the virtual machine. Allocate memory to the virtual machine and click Next. Click and drag the slider bar to allocate memory to the virtual machine. You can also type the amount of memory in megabytes MB in the box to the right of the slider bar.
The more memory you can allocate, the better it will run. You cannot allocate more memory than your computer has. Run VirtualBox and click on the New button given on the Menu of it. Now in the Name box, type- Windows XP and its corresponding options will automatically get setup. Then click on the Next button.
To store the installation file we need to attach a Virtual Hard drive to our Virtual Machine. The VirtualBox will automatically set it to 10GB which is enough. Thus, leave the default settings and click on the NEXT.
Next , Select Dynamic allocated option. 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.
Finally, click on the Create button. Now, our XP Virtual Machine is ready, time to boot it up. For that select the created virtual machine from the left side of the VBox panel and click on the Start button given in the menu of the same. We have a category search engine where we will select the product and the edition we need and, from a button, we can download it directly. All official and unmodified. As we can see, it has a virtual machine download section from where we will be able to download these VMs.
These machines are not very up-to-date, but they can help us to get out of more than one trouble. We can access these VMs from here. We will even be able to download Windows XP virtual machines, created by Microsoft. On the Osboxes website we will be able to find a good variety of Linux distros already installed and configured to use in both VirtualBox and VMware.
We can access this website from the following link. But not quite. You can adjust these settings now via the System and Display menus. A snapshot allows you to save and restore the state of the virtual machine at any point. So, once you have your fresh version of the operating system installed, take a snapshot.
If you muck up your virtual machine or want to revert it back to its pure, untouched state without having to reinstall your operating system , you can just restore your snapshot.
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