1. Download and Install Windows XP Virtual Machine in VirtualBox
Dr. Cliff Zou
University of Central Florida

2. Acknowledgement
“How to add an XP Mode Virtual Machine to Windows 10 (or 8) using Hyper-V” by Mihai Neacsu
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CAP4145: Introduction to Malware Analysis by Dr. Xinwen Fu from UCF
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3. Windows Virtual Machines
Microsoft has provided many Windows OS virtual machine for free use
Download from: edge/tools/vms/
Currently it has Win7, Win8, Win10
Under the webpage, “Choose your OS” means your host OS
These virtual machines expire after 90 days.
You can delete expired VM and reload the original downloaded VM image again for a fresh windows VM

4. Windows Virtual Machines
However, Microsoft has discontinued its Windows XP virtual machine
Luckily, there is a way to get WinXP VM through another way

5. Downloading WinXP VM Download WinXP mode for Windows 7 from:
Either WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe or another one is fine (differed by Media Player software)
Use Winzip or WinRar to unzip this file (just treat it as a normal compressed file instead of exe file)

6. Downloading WinXP VM
In the extracted folder, under the ‘sources’ folder, find a file named ‘xpm’, rename it as ‘xpm.zip’
Open this xpm.zip file, extract the ‘VirtualXPVHD’ file out
Change ‘VirtualXPVHD’ to ‘VirtualXP.VHD’
This VHD file is the actual VM image of WinXP!
Make a copy of this VHD file to a safe file location as it will be used and changed by VirtualBox later

7. Installing WinXP VM in VirtualBox
Under VirtualBox Manager:
Menu “Machine” “New” to create a winxp 32-bit vm
“Use an existing virtual hard disk file” choose the downloaded VirtualXP.VHD
If you feel the WinXP display is too small, when the WinXP VM is running, goto menu “View””Scale factor” change to 200%
If your mouse does not work under WinXP VM, close this VM and goto its “Settings” ”System” ”MotherBoard” ”Pointing Device” select “PS/2 Mouse”

8. Running WinXP Virtual Machine
In setup, disable the “automatic update”
If you want to go back to host OS, click right CTL key to release your mouse back to your host OS
The right CTL key is the default ‘home key’ for VirtualBox
Right CTL + HOME will show the popup virtualBox menu

9. VirtualBox Guest Additions
Install Guest Additions for Windows XP
Start VirtualBox.
Start the WinXP VM
Once the host has booted, click Menu “Devices” “Insert Guest Additions CD Image”
Following the on-screen instructions. Ignore warnings and continue
Mouse integration – moving freely inside and out of Windows XP
Enabled with the Guest Additions

10. VirtualBox Guest Additions
Enable copy and paste
Start the VM, and once it's booted, click “Devices”  “Shared Clipboard”  “Bidirectional”
Enable Drag and Drop
Click “Devices”  “Drag and Drop”  “Bidirectional”
Since the WinXP’s IE browser is too old, it cannot browse most websites (and not safe to use it!)
On your host machine, google “Chrome download for winxp 32bit” to find Chrome program to download, then drag-drop to WinXP VM to install Chrome (or firefox)
You can safely use the new browser to goto Internet