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You can alternatively do a virtual 'sneaker net' by way of the USB capability you can set up in your VMs.

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There is more to learn, including how to share folders between those you create in the VM with your Linux installation. You can save the state of each VM at any time, and keep multiple states available to run. Multiple VMs can run simultaneously, and your regular Linux Mint is running right along with them. They will run only when started from the VirtualBox Manager.

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One named WinXP-SP3 that I set up a couple of weeks ago, and the new WinXP VM that I just set up (I didn't do the OS install on this one yet.) You can create as many VMs as you have space on your hard drive. Okay, I now have 2 virtual XP VM installations on my Laptop. You'll find that back on your VirtualBox Manager screen, you have everything installed that it found on your PC, hardware-wise. In that isolated environment, you will have a C: drive and the Windows XP operating system, the same as if it were on your hard drive and PC alone.

This is something that you will need as well as the XP installation disk.įrom this point, the actual installation takes place within your virtual machine.

But for now, click on the selection down-arrow, and it says VBGuestAdditions.iso. If you are installing XP from a DVD drive, that is the default. The 'Select start-up disk' window appears. Your VM 'container', if you will has been created, and the details of the environment appear in the list. You are now back in the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager window. 'File location and size' appears I'm leaving WinXP2 and the slider set to 10.00 GB. Leave it set to Dynamically Allocated' and click next. Read the paragraph you probably want to leave it at VDI. The 'Hard disk file type' window appears. Give the VM a name (WinXP2 for example), leave the 'Type' set to 'Microsoft Windows' and select the version 'Windows XP (32-bit). In the Oracle VirtualBox Manager screen that opens, Click on 'New' and a 'create Virtual Machine' window appears. You allocate the amount of memory for the VM (when it runs), and you can create the disk space it needs to be determined dynamically (or fixed dynamic is default.) I'm setting one up for Windows XP as I type this. You start VirtualBox from the Menu, and you are ready to create your virtual machine. If you can't spot it immediately, type VirtualBox in the Search field. Once VirtualBox is installed, it appears on your Menu listing.

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VirtualBox, like any other package in the software repository, installs with mouse clicks, not terminal commands. Hint: type VirtualBox in the search window. Then you find VirtualBox from the categories in the Software Manager window. You type in your password to get elevated privilege to install software. On Ubutu and Linux Mint, it installs when you click on Software Manager from the Mint Menu. VirtualBox, which is also a hypervisor, is very easy to install on Linux. As you will see later if you follow through with me on this, QEMU is also one of the virtual machine types you can set up in Virtualbox.

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