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hello i have just joined this site as i am using Peppermint Ice operating system and i want to play the windows hidden object games and someone suggested using Virtualbox,i do not have a clue where to start and i need some help please,if i install the latest Virtualbox release to my laptop which is running the peppermint ice o/s do i have to download the games which are exe files and then run Virtualbox ?
thank you.
i have just installed version 3.2 and it said windows xp but when i clicked on start it said no bootable medium found,do i have to put my xp disk in the dvd drive ?

You must have a legal copy of Windows and install it before you can run Windows. VirtualBox is the program that allows you to install other operating systems but does not come with them installed.

all ok now i installed my copy of vista.