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There are a few different virtualization packages available for Linux. These include VMWare, VirtualBox, and Parallels. VirtualBox is free, whereas Parallels and VMWare cost money. VirtualBox is also provided by most distro's repositories, so it is the easiest solution to set up.
After you have installed VirtualBox, click "New Machine" or "New", depending on what version you have. Name your machine something appropriate, like "Windows XP." On the next page, specify the amount of RAM. Windows XP will need at least 64 MB, but 256 MB is a more reasonable minimum. Next, create a hard drive. You have two options. One is a dynamically sized image. This image does not occupy as much space on your hard drive immediately, but will expand as you put more stuff on Windows XP. It is also slightly slower. The other option is to create a fixed-size image, which will perform better, but also occupy more space on your hard drive, even if you don't need it.
Now that you have given the machine a name, RAM, and a hard drive, it will ALMOST be done. By default, it does not enable sound or USB (if you have the OSE version, there is no USB). It also will attempt to boot from the empty hard drive . Click the options on the right side of VirtualBox to enable a sound card, and to "insert" a CD. You can choose either an ISO image or your actual CD-ROM drive to boot from. Once you have done this, start the machine. You should see Windows XP setu begin. Continue the installation, just as you would on a real computer.
Once Windows XP is installed, go to Devices > Install Guest Additions on the box that you are running XP in. This will "insert" a CD that provides extra drivers, and allows you to move your mouse and copy-paste between Linux and XP.
Wiki User
∙ 15y ago
Wiki User
∙ 15y agoThere are a few different programs / products you can use for virtualization in Linux.
Sun VirtualBox - Free. Can support Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux guests. Also available on Windows.
VMWare Workstation - Commercial. Can support Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux guests. Also available on Windows.
Xen hypervisor - Free. Supports Linux guests only.
VirtualBox and Xen are available in almost every distro's repository. VMWare is available from VMWare's site.
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∙ 12y agofirstly install vm software in ur system
then insert the Linux CD
then open the virtual machine in that u will be having a option called new vitual machine
click that and browse from CD ROM and install the Linux
after successfully installing
from file click on open option where u see the Linux version u installed
click on it and click power on the vitual machine
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