Created at: 2025-05-18
Microsoft does not offer Windows XP any more. You might have to find other ways of getting it. Through a physical CD or a web link (somewhere).
Make sure to enable Guest Additions so that you can share folders.
Once the virtual machine is up, go to:
Then go to "my computer" and
Use "Auto-resize guest display".
Create a folder in your host that will be the shared folder. Like
mkdir ~/Documents/vm_shared. Move the .exe there.
Now in Virtualbox, in the windows XP window, go to:
-> Devices -> Shared Folders
Add that folder, make it auto-mount and permanent.
In a Windows guest, shared folders are browseable and therefore visible in Windows Explorer. So, to attach the host's shared folder to your Windows guest, open Windows Explorer and look for it under "My Networking Places" -> "Entire Network" -> "VirtualBox Shared Folders". By right-clicking on a shared folder and selecting "Map network drive" from the menu that pops up, you can assign a drive letter to that shared folder.
But in windows XP, it will instead be at "My Computer". You may need to reset the VM.
The default internet explorer is Microsfot Explorer, which isn't supported by a lot of websites. Latest Chrome and Firefox don't support windows XP.
Download Firefox in the host machine by finding the latest version in the ftp server, for example:
Drag the window to make it bigger, the VM will auto adjust. Else: Change the dimensions from inside Windows, in the control panel.