Installing Windows XP on a Mac Mini

[carbonkevlar]

Hello
i am new on this forum and hope that someone will be able to help me
i had been using parallels desktop for some time but when i updated to maverick i had to buy another licence for paralleld desktop which i do not want to do
so i installed Virtual Box as i just need to run a fez=w applications from time to time on windows
my problem is that i do not have a DVD rom on the mac mini : i usually use the DVD rom of a nac book which is on the same network.
When i created the virtual machine i have been unable to tell virtual box to install windozs XP from the original CD i own which was in the DVD player of the mac book pro.
i had desinstalled parallels desktop from the mac mini so i guessed windows xp is not installed anymore.

Any idea on how i could install windows xp on my mac mini ?

thanks for your help

[rpmurray]

You could use Disk Utility on on the MacBook Pro to create a .cdr of the Win XP install disc and then copy that over to the Mac Mini and use it to install into VirtualBox.

[carbonkevlar]

Yes i have done that : created an iso of the windows XP cd and put it on the Mac Mini
the installation of windows XP then starts but very quickly i have a message saying that as i do not have any CD or DVD on the mac mini the installation process has to be stopped...

[socratis]

1) Open the "Preferences" of the VM.
2) Click on the Storage.
3) Select the CD-ROM device.
4) Click on the CD icon (see attached image).
5) Point it to your .iso file.
6) Boot the machine...

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[carbonkevlar]

Thanks for your help
i actually managed to install windows by using Daemon Lite to mount the iso file as a DVD and it worked perfectly
Might have worked with your solution though..

[carbonkevlar]

So now windows XP is installed and updated to SP3 but it is VERY VERY slow especially when i try too install some small programs.
Seems that just after launching the VM the speed is OK but after a while the VM is almost frozen

any good idea ?

[carbonkevlar]

i increased the size of the memory of the VM from initially 192mb to 1024 and then 2048 and it greatly helped !