Install Windows XP inside ubuntu using Virtualbox
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If you are a Linux ubuntu user and you just want to do any thing in Windows when you are operating in ubuntu,you may not want to restart your computer and select to boot Windows.This tutorial tells how to install Windows XP with virtualbox inside ubuntu,and I hope it may help.Following is my virtual XP system.
1.First,install Virtualbox, here tells you how to install it.
2.After Virtualbox installed,click to System–>Administration–>Users&Groups,
click unlock at following window,enter you password then click Manage Groups
scroll down to select vboxusers, then click Properties,
tick wraith on,wraith is my user name.
You can just execute following command in a terminal instead what you do above:
sudo adduser user-name vboxusers
type your ubuntu user name instead user-name.
3.Now open Virtualbox at Applications–>System Tools–>Sun VirtualBox,
Click New to create a new machine
click next and enter a name for the machine at bottom select OS to Microsoft Windows ,Windows XP
click next and set memory size,512MB is recommended if you have a 1GB RAM.
click next and create new hard disk
click next until following window,select as follow
click next and distribute virtual hard disk size
click next,then finish.you will see:
Click Settings,in General,set the Video Memory size,then go to CD/DVD-ROM,tick on Mount CD/DVD Drive–>Host CD/DVD drive
click Audio,select Host Audio Driver to OSS audio driver,click ok to change at last.
Now,you need a CD for Windows install,put it in you CD-ROM,and click Start ,windows will be installing.Click start to run Windows after the install finish.
Tips:
If you want to install the virtual XP system with an image file,click Settings and tick on ISO Image File at CD/DVD-ROM tab,then add it from your disk.
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Reader Comments
very informative, thank you!
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good tutorial. but i have a question. is that necessary to create a group for virtual box? because i directly install winxp in virtualbox without creating a vbusers in my ubuntu manage group.
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You pointed me in the right direction, in fact I run Ubuntu 10.04 and installed VirtualBox straight from their software installation wizard. I don’t like windows, but Manchester University doesn’t have SPSS for Linux available for students to download …
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This works good, I no longer need to run dual boot. I have the bare minimum ram, and it installed slow, very slow. But once XP was installed it runs almost as fast as it would in a standalone boot. I’m using Ubuntu 10.04 at one point the screen was a little different than described above but it still worked the same. Thanks good tutorial.
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