If you can find your Windows license key for Windows XP from an older PC, for instance , you may be able to add it to your virtual machine directly, although it may still not activate.
You can only do so much with a Windows XP simulator like this, but if you want to keep testing, you can try out other operating systems as VirtualBox virtual machines. For instance, if you want to give Linux a try, install Ubuntu in VirtualBox instead.
Ben Stockton is a freelance technology writer based in the United Kingdom. In a past life, Ben was a college lecturer in the UK, training teens and adults. If you still have the OEM key that came with that XP install, you could try reactivating using it or purchase a copy Windows XP off an auction site and do a repair upgrade over that installation when you import in to the VM or do a fresh install.
Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. I need to do this in order to use some legacy XP programs that won't run on Win 8. I have the same question 0. Double-click it and wait for Windows XP to burst into life: Looks like you made it! Install Instructions Once you have completed the download, double-click Setup. The above code snippet will automatically configure the settings to suit Windows XP. Now, give your virtual machine a suitable name.
Even so, double-check the Version is Windows XP bit. Assign the virtual machine some memory. I labored forever, unsuccessfully attempting to get an old Win XP moved as a VM in order to run ancient but vital business programs which could not be installed on later OS.
I would, seemingly randomly, get one to work, then fail with no rhyme nor reason. Finally, I learned about the OEM loaded into typical office computers, and how its license is tied inextricably to that physical machine; one can create a VM, and likely get it to work on that same machine, but never onto another.
Then, like magic, I got one to work consistently - lo and behold, it was because that used laptop had an original fully licensed XP install, and so the XP OS was not bound to the physical machine in the same way. It could be passed onto an entirely new one, running Win 7, Linux, or whatever OS had a VM application in place, and happily run no problem.
Of course, I have tried to reserve this strategy for isolated programs that need no internet, so I can avoid risks from intrusion as well as inadvertent "updates" which might either introduce unwanted changes, alerts regarding the program's obsolescence, or complications should Microsoft get some feedback about an extra copy of a Win XP being run without another license.
My personal pinnacle of sophistication was creating a VM XP running my desired programs, on a Win 7 Pro machine, accessed by remote desktop from both Win 7 and other XP computers on a secured closed network, all working long enough to last until the close of our small business.
I still have to preserve a viable copy of the two business programs, for the seven years during which any audit might occur, a situation that thousands of other small closed businesses must face - and considering out-of-pocket expenses to update software for seven years in this unlikely eventuality is the final insult we would bear, without workarounds like mine.
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