XP guest on XP host,

[avmad]

Hi all,

Can anyone point a newbie to a step-by-step guide to hosting Win XP on Win XP?

I have Win XP Pro on my laptop and I have Virtualbox installed and working (have hosted ubuntu so far).

I have bought another copy of XP Pro to be my guest OS (so I can install some apps that I do not want to have installed in my host OS).

Can anyone help me get this working (i.e. how to do the windows install etc)?


Thanks!

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avmad

[Perryg]

This might help/ http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+i ... virtualbox

[avmad]

Thanks for that Perryg. That was a great link you gave. I'm going to give it a go this morning!

avmad

[avmad]

Hi again,

Before even creating my XP guest, I thought I would try to install the latest VirtualBox (3.0.8 ). However, I am using VirtualBox in "portable" mode so I had to go find a portable version of this. This is only an aside but I found it here URL removed by mod. While trying to install it I hit an issue in that the packaging has changed and needs to be unpacked by a starter. It just seems to hang so I am going to step back to the 3.0.6 version now.

back soon...

avmad

[Perryg]

We don't support the portable vitrualbox here.