Windows Xp Iso Image For Virtualbox: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

How you install the operating system will vary. Older versions of Windows such as Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and MS-DOS will require creating Virtual Floppy disks with the appropriate boot files. Since we are working with Windows XP, we will focus on that. If you are using a system without an optical drive, you will need to find a computer and create an ISO image of your install disc, which you can then mount in Oracle VirtualBox. To create ISO images, I use ISO Recorder by Alex Feinman, which is quite old but still works, even on Windows 10. Creating an image is as simple as inserting the disc, right-click the disc in Computer, then click Create image from CD/DVD. Once you have an ISO image ready, you can proceed with the installation.

Because you are installing for the first time, you will need to select the ISO image manually. First, click the Browse button, select the Windows ISO image, then click Open. Finally, click Start to load the operating system.

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After installing Windows XP or an earlier version of Windows, you should install the Guest Additions to ensure you can move between the virtual machine and host easily. First, click Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD image, then click Next.

Once you have your Windows installation fully configured, you can proceed to install your legacy applications. There are several ways to do this. Depending on the format the application is available in, you might need to convert it into a format acceptable by the VM. If your application is on the disc, you can use ISO Recorder, described earlier, to create a copy you can mount as an ISO image in the VM.

You need an Windows XP installation ISO. There are many different ones that work but a good working image for English users is named en_windows_xp_professional_sp3_Nov_2013_Incl_SATA_Drivers.iso and has the SHA1 hash of 6947e45f7eb50c873043af4713aa7cd43027efa7.

You can either insert an original Windows XP installer CD/DVD or you can select an ISO image. I already has a Windows XP ISO image on my hard disk, which is a much faster way to install any operating system. Click on "Start" to start the process.

I had a HDD -soon to be removed from case- and wanted to "reincarnate" the existing semi-inactive windows xp installation in VBOX.As long as i had no usb drive, i followed the next procedure which worked like a charm.(more time consuming though, i think)REQUIRED SOFTWARE : a. Acronis True image boot CD, b. UltraISO

2) uninstalled all ide/vga/sound drivers from native installation ->shutdown (DO NOT boot after this point again to the native OS)3) boot with "Acronis True Image Home 2010 boot cd" -> create backup of disk(max compression preferred)4) make a UDF/DVD .iso file from the previous acronis image, with UltraISO5) mount in 1st cdrom the Acronis Boot CD, and in 2nd the .iso you created b46) boot VM and restore disk form previous created image.7) let the system configure its devices at 1st boot and voila.

Your post on migrating a Windows OS to VirtualBox was helpful. I went through the steps you did and also could not get past the "mup.sys" hang after many, many tries, but finally I did this: on the source machine, before capturing the disk image, go to the device manager and change the IDE driver from whatever it is to the "standard IDE driver". (Select update, don't have the OS search, tell it you have your own driver, then it will give you a dialog where you can select the standard IDE driver.) Save that, reboot, then reimage the drive, convert the image to a .vdi. It then worked on first boot in VirtualBox! I did not have to reinstall or even do a repair install, hooray.

It should be noted that most of these problems have to do with problems moving windows to new hardware, not the cloning process itself. The same problems face those trying to move an existing physical windows disk to a new physical computer.

Good morning, I used to work for a college and was in charge of getting the same image to work across any system we could throw at it. Perhaps the most difficult operations where moving Windows Server 2003 installations from high end server-class hardware down to conventional desktop machines. There where quite significant hardware variances between them.

1) Install Windows fresh into your VM, connect your external USB disk, in Windows, and use NTBACKUP. Restore this back up on top of your fresh installation. There are two tricks - you can tell NTBACKUP which parts of the registry NOT to restore ( -tip-4839-how-do-i-move-windows-xp-to-different-hardware.html) in this case, you don't want to replace any of the driver/hardware information, as outlined in that article. There is an option in NTBACKUP when performing a restore that allows you to overwrite any existing files. You want to select that option. Boot up, worked a solid 9 out of 10 times for me.

2) "STOP 0x7B Fix" as we used to call it. Often times if you move a system to new hardware, the first and only error you get is a blue screen that may say "STOP 0x0000007B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" This occurs often because the new system/virtualized system has a different disk controller (different flavor/brand of IDE or SATA controller for instance) and when Windows goes to take control of the hardware, it can't the necessary controller driver. You would perform the following onto your OLD installation (or your newly imported disk image):

As outlined in essentially you create the registry patch in the article, apply it to the system, and copy of all of the generic disk controller drivers from the Windows CD, and put them into C:\Windows\System32\drivers. Again, of course you don't have access to the old Windows in a running state. You've got solid linux experience, so the following shouldn't be too scary: Mount your imported disk image using the loopback device, copy the driver files into it, then, mount the old SYSTEM hive temporarily into your new Windows installation, and apply the patch that way. You would need to search/replace all of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in the registry patch to HKEY_

However, once I added the drive as an IDE-drive instead, a current version of VirtualBox managed to start the OS even when I just copied the vhd (VPC-disk image) with only the following changes: I removed the integration software, I made sure it was properly shutdown, and had no unapplied undo disks.

"It seems lots of people have had this problem, and mup.sys is not the problem"...Yes, it is - the mup.sys has something to do with the multi-processor kernel (on XP) and since people normally are moving to a virtual machine with just one processor the kernel fails to start.This can be fix with the latest VM software, in virtualbox I can now set the virtual machine for two processors and then the machine load's "fine" (after that is just a mather of proper drivers).

I was able to use Jeremy Strong's idea to fix the STOP 0x00007B error after cloning my laptop drive to a virtualbox machine. Here's a bit more detail on how it works:Install a fresh copy of XP as a virtual machine. Or you can probably use any virtual version of windows.In the working virtual windows installation, add the .vdi file of the machine that won’t boot as a slave drive. Make sure the IDE controller is set to "Intel PIIX4". I also checked the "IO APIC" option (not sure if it matters).Boot the working windows.Open Notepad and paste this in:Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

Save the above to your desktop as "Test.reg".Run "regedit"Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEFile > Load Hive…In the Load Hive... file dialog, browse to the slave drive (the one containing the windows installation that won't boot) and load from the slave drive "Windows\System32\config\system"Name the loaded hive “TEST”Double click the Test.reg file you saved to your desktop and tell it you want to add it to the registry.Back in regedit, click TEST, then choose File > Unload Hive…Copy C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\intelide.sys to the same location on the slave drive if it isn’t there already.Shut down the working windows (don't just hibernate it, shut it down).Boot the broken system and it should work.

Have you tried de-attaching the working primary virtual disk, attaching the target virtual disk as the primary IDE master, and then restoring the saved image file to what is now the primary IDE disk? In other words, do the restore operation to a target virtual disk that is in the same position as the source virtual disk was when the backup was created.

After 5 days of effort, I solved the BSOD problem and booted successfully. There was a missing IDS controller driver in the .tib source. [ EDIT: The tutorial at [ -windows-xp-to-new-system-or-motherboard helped me find the missing driver. ]

The tutorial at [ -windows-xp-to-new-system-or-motherboard ] to pre-prep the old WinXP partition with the IDE controller drivers needed at VM boot time, hopefully avoiding the all-too-common "7B" BSOD.

I tried a similar image and restore operation with TI 10 when moving an XP VM from Virtual PC to VMWare and ended up with BSODs and many driver issues also. After several attempts I got it working (sort-of) but wasn't happy with the outcome. Then I found out that VMWare has a utility called VMWare VCenter Converter, which is for converting virtual hard disks of different formats or physical hard disks with Windows installed on them into VMWare-compatible VHDs. I ran it and it worked perfectly. I don't know if VirtualBox has a converter program available, but if they do it may be worth a try.

Hard way is via esoteric command line entries, the easy way is via Don Milne's Virtual HD Clone Utility with GUI front end. Unfortunately I can't remember where I downloaded it from (possibly the VirtualBox forum), but search for the above name or mpack (his user name on the virtualbox forums).

Once you complete the steps, the ISO file will mount to the virtual machine. The setup will appear on the guest device if this is an installation media. If you connect the image to a virtual machine with an OS, the disk will appear in the operating system. 2ff7e9595c