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Windows XP virtual machine in VirtualBox fails to boot after disabling VT-x/AMD-V

I use VirtualBox 4.3.4 and I want to move a Windows XP base VM from my PC to my laptop. I have a 64-bit Windows 8 on on my PC so VirtualBox supports CPU acceleration and hardware virtualization. But ...
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Blocking domain group policy on a local machine in Workgroup

I have created a VM for Win XP which is running now in a Win 8 host system using Hyper-V. This Win XP VM was initially connected to the my company's domain but now disconnected and is part of the ...
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Get official Windows XP virtual machine for Hyper-V

There are many unofficial Windows XP ISO file in numerous of websites. So to create a Windows XP virtual machine, one has to download that ISO and make that virtual hard disk manually. Is there a way ...
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Enabling internet connection on a Windows XP VM in Hyper-V

I did pretty much the same as described in this question: Windows 8 Hyper-V - how to give VM internet access? However, I still don't have internet access on the WinXP VM. I tried also by adding ...
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VirtualBox: Windows XP BSOD 0x0000007B

[edit] Quick answer from comment which I believe is true: There is probably no realistic answer when the computer hardware does not support hardware virtualization. You will need to upgrade the ...
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On VirtualBox, how to to access the host CD drive from the virtual machine?

In VirtualBox (6.1) on macOS (10.12), I have Windows XP as a guest OS. I can't find how to access the physical CD drive from the guest OS. I've found on the web that in the storage settings of the ...
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How to copy files from local machine to remote virtual machine?

Is there an easy way I can copy files directly from my machine to the virtual machine? I have downloaded a lot of .HTML files on my desktop and I need them on the virtual machine, I noticed that I ...
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Win XP HDD's ownership rights were ruined after using "Take Ownership" from another computer [closed]

An old friend of mine recently found an old 80gb HDD and he gave it to me and said he asked if I could copy his old data from it. So I got home, plugged in the drive and started copying from the drive....
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USB passthrough doesn't work in VirtualBox

I can't get USB passtrough to work in VirtualBox. Help would be appreciated. Host system is Ubuntu 23.04. Guest VM is Windows XP SP3. VirtualBox is version 7.10 ( newest ATM ), extension pack is also ...
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How can I start a 256 color game on a Virtual Machine with Win XP?

(Note: I am from Germany and have my system on german language, so if i my translations of the Buttons and stuff i get on screen seem strange to you pls let me know) I wanted to play a old pc game of ...
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Run QEMU on a headless host

I am not sure if anyone has been stupid enough to try something like this or if I am just really bad at using Google. I would like a host OS that would be a linux, say Arch Linux, and I would like to ...
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QEMU: passing usb devices running fullspeed to vm with ehci usb controller running lowspeed

I have Windows XP VM with GPU passthrough and would like also to pass usb keyboard and mouse to it. I am doing the usb passthrough with: -device usb-host,vendorid=0x1e7d,productid=0xafca \ -device usb-...
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Migrating Old Windows XP and 7 machines to VMs to improve security

I work for a manufacturing company which has all kinds of equipment that runs older operating systems. Some have computers that run full blown Windows XP and Windows 7, while others run embedded ...
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VM from IDE XP partition on multiboot AHCI Win 8.1 partition

I have a single hard drive with 3 multiboot partitions: Windows 8.1 Professional; Windows XP x32; Windows XP x64 The current XP partitions contain many programs for which I no longer have ...
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Can we run old games in a Hyper-V XP VM?

They're really old games that used to run on XP or earlier systems. And of course, many of them don't work as expected when running on newer systems. I created a Gen1 XP VM with Hyper-V Manager and ...

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