Open your Oracle VirtualBox program and open the virtual machine creation wizard from the tool menu on the homepage of the program or from the New shortcut. When the virtual machine preparation window opens, the first thing you need to do is to type the name of the operating system you will install in the Name field. After typing Windows XP into the Name field, the values in the Type and Version fields will be automatically adjusted according to the system you typed. If you see the 32-bit value in the Version field after typing Windows XP and you are going to install 64-bit, configure this value manually. In the Machine Folder section, you can change the location where you will install the virtual machine. For example, if you want to install on an external SSD or HDD storage device, select Other from the pop-up window and then select the install location from your host computer. Oracle program recommends 512 MB of RAM size for Windows XP.
If your host computer has a high RAM capacity, you can configure this value as a minimum of 4 GB or 8 GB. Since you will be installing Windows XP from scratch in the virtual hard disk settings, you need to select Create a virtual hard disk now option. If you have an XP virtual disk that you have already installed, you must select the option to add an existing hard disk file. If you are not going to use a VM you set up on VirtualBox with other virtualization software, choose VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image). You can also use the VDI disk type in other software, but Oracle always recommends using the VDI type. If you want to use as much disk space as the virtual disk file capacity on the disk where you will install the virtual machine, you can choose Fixed Size. Fixed Size can improve the performance of the VM but unnecessarily fills the host disk space. Therefore, by choosing Dynamically Allocated, only the disk space needed by the VM will be allocated automatically on the host disk.ĭo not change the path in the File Location and Size section to save the virtual disk to the installation location you set in the first step of the VM wizard. Since it will be sufficient to use the 10 GB virtual disk size recommended by Oracle VM for XP, click the Create button and continue.Īfter creating the virtual disk, click Settings to configure the hardware settings of the virtual computer.Ĭonfigure the Shared Clipboard and Drag and Drop features as Bidirectional in the General / Advanced tab to enable file sharing between the host and the virtual machine in the VM’s settings window. Thus, you can share files or copy/paste text from both from host to VM and from VM to host. To install Windows XP on the virtual machine, select the Optical device as the primary boot device in the Boot Order list in the System / Motherboard settings to be able to add the ISO file to the optical drive. #Virtual optical disk file mac windows #Virtual optical disk file mac install