![]() When the Windows boots, your system shows blue screen of death and reboots. You now have virtual copy of the physical system. ![]() Then you browse and look for the vhd file you created on step 1.Ĥ. ![]() When it asks for the Hard Drive, you choose Use an existing virtual hard drive file option. You will also need to add an environment variable (System Variable) VBOX_USER_HOME with the value c:\VirtualBox, so all users can have access to the VM.ģ. Go to File –> Preferences –> General to change the Default Machine Folder option. I change them to c:\VirtualBox so all users will see the virtual machine no matter who they are logged in as. By default the machine information are stored in the individual user folder. Before I create a new machine, I like to change the Default Machine Folder. Download Virtualbox and install on the Windows 7/8 system. You run this utility on the physical Windows XP machine. Convert the physical system to virtual system. Here’s the steps I took to convert the physical system to virtual system.ġ. However there are some mission critical system that needs to run Windows XP, for those computers, you can virtualize them using VirtualBox and maintain them separately as a VM. Most people will be upgrading their computer to Windows 7 or Windows 8. Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft as of April, 2014.
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