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Hello, I've been trying to set up a simple VM on a Windows 10 laptop to run Windows XP. The purpose is to use very old software to generate local files, which would then be shared to the host computer and used there. No Internet or other network connections required for Windows XP. The VM immediately fails upon start, log files attached . Any help appreciated.

00:00:03.551481 Host RAM: 2187MB (2.1GB) total, 222MB available
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00:00:03.964390 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000040000000 (1 073 741 824, 1 024 MB)
00:00:03.964545 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000008000000 (134 217 728, 128 MB)

Your host barely has enough available RAM to satify your graphics allocation, never mind the main RAM.

XP-SP3 needs around 256MB RAM for a minimum level of performance, and you certainly can't satisfy even that without freeing up a lot more host RAM (the host needs something to work with too, so you can't just assign 100% of free RAM to the VM). You should also reduce graphics RAM - there's no point having it so high on this host with an XP guest.

We don't need three copies of the VM log btw, so I deleted the two unnecessary copies.

Thanks so much! 512MB on the RAM made it work. I uploaded three log files because this site has a limit of 128K per file and the log was over 300K, so the log was chunked up. But no worries now. I don't know if you can change the site to handle these larger logs.

Generally only one log is needed, unless a progression of changes needs to be demonstrated. Zipped logs always fit, and zipping is recommended.

Glad you're up and running!