For my home machines, I use Linux as my main operating system and have Windows inside a Virtualbox.

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.Even as a passionate Linux user I prefer Windows for certain tasks (e.g. 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. Type your ubuntu user name instead user-name.ģ.Now open Virtualbox at Applications–>System Tools–>Sun VirtualBox,Ĭlick next and enter a name for the machine at bottom select OS to Microsoft Windows ,Windows XPĬlick next and set memory size,512MB is recommended if you have a 1GB RAM.Ĭlick next until following window,select as followĬlick next and distribute virtual hard disk sizeĬlick Settings,in General,set the Video Memory size,then go to CD/DVD-ROM,tick on Mount CD/DVD Drive–>Host CD/DVD driveĬlick Audio,select Host Audio Driver to OSS audio driver,click ok to change at last. You can just execute following command in a terminal instead what you do above: sudo adduser user-name vboxusers Scroll down to select vboxusers, then click Properties,

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.ġ.First,install Virtualbox, here tells you how to install it.Ģ.After Virtualbox installed,click to System–>Administration–>Users&Groups,Ĭlick unlock at following window,enter you password then click Manage Groups

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