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In this article we will show you how to create a Windows XP Virtual Machine. What is a virtual machine you may ask?
One of our guest writers explains it in great detail in one of our previous articles titled Virtualization and its Uses in the Tech World:

If you have downloaded Virtual XP PC from Download Windows XP Mode theninstall it on your PC and then you can open the Virtual Machine from the VMware Player as follows. Browse for the.vmx file in the folder you have installed the Virtual XP PC and  Click Open. You can run it. Oct 19, 2009  Windows XP Mode installation: Download the Windows XP Mode installer. Double click on the installer and follow the instructions to complete the installation. Note: We recommend that you save a copy of the Windows XP Mode installer for future, to restore the Windows XP Mode environment. For example, you could burn the installer to DVD or save it.

  1. Dec 31, 2017  Here is my video tutorial on how to install Windows XP Professional 64-Bit in VMware! VMware: WinRAR: http://ww.
  2. Dec 19, 2017  There used to be Windows XP virtual machines on modern.ie. I still have a couple of copies around for testing. Unfortunately after XP going out of support, they were removed. But the copies used to be on Azure CDN (credit /u/JoshBrodieNZ. Seems like they recently removed them too. There's still a way to get Windows XP 32-bit VMs from Microsoft (no 64-bit) through Windows XP mode.
  3. If you are using the virtual LSI Logic SCSI adapter in a Windows XP virtual machine, download the driver from the download center at the LSI Logic Web site. Although supported by ESX 4.0 Update 1, the e1000 NIC driver is not provided with the 32-bit version of Windows XP Professional. If you have a virtual machine with a SCSI virtual.

A Virtual Machine is a piece of software which emulates (pretends), to be machine (computer) to do an abnormal task such as running Windows on a Macintosh computer for example, to occur via the trapping of computer instructions. It is quite literally a computer running ON a computer. One of the by-products of this is that the two systems can be entirely separated from each other, which allows a level of security that just can’t be matched.

Now, lets make your own XP Virtual Machine.

  • To begin, download and install Free VMware player (you will need to fill out a few questions before download). This is what our virtual machine will be running inside of.
  • Choose what size you would like your Virtual Machine hard drive size to be (this will take up real hard drive space). I have created several different sizes available for download (right click, save file as.). For testing purposes, the 4Gb is a good choice:
  • Download the appropriate file based on which Windows XP you own (right click, save as.) and save it in the same folder that you saved the previous file in:
    • For XP Pro: WindowsXPPro.vmx
    • For XP Home: WindowsXPHome.vmx
  • Insert your WindowsXP CD into your CD Rom.
  • Run VMware player which you installed in the first step and click the “Open” button and find the .vmx file you downloaded. Windows Setup should now begin.
  • To interact inside your virtual machine, double click on the Window or press CTRL+G. This will make anything you do with the mouse or keyboard work inside the Virtual Machine only and not the desktop you are currently using. To escape the Virtual Machine so you can control your regular desktop, press CTRL+ALT.
  • Install WindowsXP as you normally would by following the prompts. When the installation finishes you will see your new Windows XP Virtual Machine Desktop.
  • To quit the Virtual Machine, either shutdown the VM version of Windows XP as you do for your normal desktop, or simply close the VMWare Player.



Window XP Virtual Machine. Windows XP being run from within Windows XP
For anyone who wants to experiment further with these Virtual Machines (for techies and geeks):

If you want to try this with other Windows operating systems such as Windows 2000. Open up the .vmx file with Notepad and it will look something like this:

config.version = “8”
virtualHW.version = “3”
ide0:0.present = “TRUE”
ide0:0.filename = “WindowsXPPro.vmdk”
memsize = “64”
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = “FALSE”
ide1:0.present = “TRUE”
ide1:0.fileName = “auto detect”
ide1:0.deviceType = “cdrom-raw”
ide1:0.autodetect = “TRUE”
floppy0.present = “FALSE”
ethernet0.present = “TRUE”
usb.present = “TRUE”
sound.present = “TRUE”
sound.virtualDev = “es1371”
displayName = “Windows XP Pro”
guestOS = “winXPPro”
nvram = “WindowsXPPro.nvram”
MemTrimRate = “-1”

ide0:0.redo = “”
ethernet0.addressType = “generated”
uuid.location = “56 4d 5c cc 3d 4a 43 29-55 89 5c 28 1e 7e 06 58”
uuid.bios = “56 4d 5c cc 3d 4a 43 29-55 89 5c 28 1e 7e 06 58”
ethernet0.generatedAddress = “00:0c:29:7e:06:58”
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = “0”

tools.syncTime = “TRUE”
ide1:0.startConnected = “TRUE”

uuid.action = “create”

checkpoint.vmState = “”

Change the guestOS value to “windows2000pro” and the other WinXPPro values to Win2000 (the rest are just names so they dont matter as much). Ati radeon x1050 windows 10.

Also, these .vmx files are optimized for computers with only 256mb of ram which is why “memsize” equals 64. If you are running 512mb of ram then you might want to set this value to 128 for added performance.

If you would like to customize the size of the .vdmk files. Download Qemu located here and install it to a location such as “c:program filesqemu”.

Goto Start > Run and type CMD.

In the command window, while in the qemu directory (eg, c:program filesqemu>) type:

qemu-img.exe create -f vmdk WindowsXPPro.vmdk 13G

Replace the 13G with whatever file size you want the VM partition to be (in this case, 13 gig) and it will create it in your qemu directory. You might want to move this out of this directory. Now all if you have to do is repeat the steps in this article using your own .vmdk and .vmx files and you have a custom Virtual Machine.

There used to be Windows XP virtual machines on modern.ie. I still have a couple of copies around for testing. Unfortunately after XP going out of support, they were removed. But the copies used to be on Azure CDN (credit /u/JoshBrodieNZ. Seems like they recently removed them too.

There's still a way to get Windows XP 32-bit VMs from Microsoft (no 64-bit) through Windows XP mode. It contains a VHD (virtual hard disk) with a 32-bit Windows XP SP3.

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  1. Download Microsoft XP Mode from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8002.
  2. Using 7-zip or any other utility decompress the exe.
  3. Inside sources, there's another file called xpm. Decompress it too. With 7-zip, right click on it and select 'Extract to .. .'
  4. One of the extracted files is VirtualXPVHD and around 1.2 GB. Rename it to VirtualXP.vhd.
  5. In VirtualBox (or any other virtualization software that supports importing VHDs), create a new Windows XP 32-bit VM and use this file as the hard disk. When you start the VM, it will start a Windows XP setup. My mouse did not work, but you can use shortcut keys to navigate the installer (e.g. Alt+N for Next).
  6. ???
  7. Profit.

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For a step by step guide with pictures, check this post from howtogeek.com.