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Can anyone help to install Win Xp in Virtual Box inside Windows 8.1?

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paulcheung

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Hi guys, I need some help to install windows XP on the Oracle Virtual Box in a Windows 8.1 laptop.
I down load the Virtual Box and installed in the windows 8.1 laptop already, I don't know how to install the windows XP 32 bit in the Virtual Box. Can any one help?
Thank you.
 
You just mount the CD / iso file, and then boot the VM. It will find the CD / ISO, and it will install it.

This has nothing to do with this section of the forum...though.
 
If you do not have an iso of windows xp, you will need to make one. the easiest way is to use CDburnXP and select copy disk from the main menu.

now if you do not have a cd/dvd drive in the laptop, you will have to do this on another machine and copy it over

Open the settings of the VM in VirtualBox, go to the Storage Tab and click on the floppy with the + on it and select Add CD/DVD Device, click on choose disk, and select the xp iso file that you copied over

while in settings go to system and double check that cd/dvd is first in the list and then click ok.

Start the vm and it should boot of the iso and it install like normal
 
I have tried virtualbox on a few occasions and just don't care for it. Vmware player has always done great for me.
 
I got it to work, thanks guys, I have one more question, it seems I need to do something before I can copy any file from the virtual box to the host system?
 
Can you download Windows XP Mode from Microsoft? That's basically a virtual machine hard drive image with XP already installed.
 
Dahak said:
Not for 8.1, it was only available for Win7 Pro/Ent/Ult
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Well, 8.1 Pro includes Virtual PC (well, "Hyper-V"). Even if the XP Mode installer refuses, to install on Windows 8, I'm pretty sure you could extract the files and use it anyway.
 
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I have a new problem, I can't get the shared folder to work. The creation of the shared folder don't stick, mean every time I created it, after click on ok and come out, it don't show on the Window XP box and go back to the system then the creation is gone, no shared folder. any idea? thanks
 
Never mind, I got the usb drive to work so I will just copy files to the usb drive then copy to the host system or other computers, that was the intent for backup.

Thanks.
 
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