If you are a Linux ubuntu user and yous simply want to do whatsoever thing in Windows when you are operating in ubuntu,you may non want to restart your calculator and select to boot Windows.This tutorial tells how to  install Windows XP with virtualbox inside ubuntu,and I hope it may  help.Post-obit is my virtual XP arrangement.

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1.First,install Virtualbox, here tells yous how to install it.

ii.Afterward Virtualbox installed,click to Arrangement–>Administration–>Users&Groups,

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click unlock at following window,enter you password then click Manage Groups

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roll down to select vboxusers, and then click Properties,

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tick  wraith on,wraith is my user name.

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You tin can just execute following command in a terminal instead what you lot do above:

sudo adduser user-proper name vboxusers

type your ubuntu user name instead user-proper noun.

iii.Now open Virtualbox at Applications–>Organization Tools–>Sun VirtualBox,

Click New to create a new machine

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click adjacent and enter a name for the machine at bottom select Os to Microsoft Windows ,Windows XP

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click adjacent and gear up retentiveness size,512MB is recommended if you lot have a 1GB RAM.

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click next and create new hd

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click next until following window,select as follow

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click next and distribute virtual difficult deejay size

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click side by side,then finish.you will see:

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Click Settings,in General,gear up the Video Memory size,then go to CD/DVD-ROM,tick on Mount CD/DVD Drive–>Host CD/DVD drive

click Sound,select Host Sound Commuter to OSS audio commuter,click ok to change at last.

At present,you need a CD for Windows install,put information technology in you CD-ROM,and click Start ,windows volition be installing.Click beginning to run Windows afterwards the install finish.

Tips:

If you want to install the virtual XP arrangement with an image file,click Settings and tick on ISO Image File at CD/DVD-ROM  tab,and then add together it from your disk.