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    Expecting a 17 year old operating to system to work perfectly in Hyper-v windows 10 may also be asking a lot. There is no reason you can’t run a perfectly functional windows xp in hyper-v. Use generation 1, IDE controllers and legacy network adapters. That’s it. Typically nobody cares about high end video or sound in a virtual machine.
    – Appleoddity
    Commented Apr 22, 2018 at 21:14
  • @Appleoddity: Unfortunately you can't choose the virtual hardware with Hyper-V. I do not care how old or entry level the virtual hardware is, as long as Windows XP SP3 has adequate drivers for them. This is not a problem for hypervisors like VMWare or Virtual Box, but with Hyper-V you are stuck with the virtual hardware provided by the Hyper-V version you work with.
    – Lesair Valmont
    Commented Apr 22, 2018 at 23:45
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    The first thing you are asked when creating a virtual machine is if you want it to be generation 1 or generation 2. You can then go in to the virtual machine settings and ADD hardware and choose legacy network adapters and IDE controllers. You can absolutely choose your hardware exactly the same as other hypervisors, albeit possibly less choices.
    – Appleoddity
    Commented Apr 23, 2018 at 0:04
  • "as it could not finish successfully"-- what do you mean by that?
    – Biswapriyo
    Commented Apr 23, 2018 at 2:19