Type the following command at the prompt and press Enter:. This process is very simple. You just need to accept the default options to go through the fdisk process. Press the right Ctrl key to free your mouse first, if necessary. Type Y and press Enter to agree to the format process when prompted. You can enter whatever you like, or nothing at all. Theoretically, you should just be able to run the Setup program from the disc drive itself to install Windows Instead, we found it much easier to simply copy the files to the C: drive and run the installer from there.
First, figure out which drive letter your disc drive was mounted as. This is displayed when your virtual machine boots up. Run the following command to copy the files from the Windows 95 disc to your C: drive, replacing R: with whatever drive letter corresponds to your virtual disc drive.
The graphical Windows 95 setup program will appear. From here on out, you can do everything graphically without messing with the DOS prompt. The actual installation process is simple. On most screens, you can accept the default options and speed through the process.
You will be prompted to enter your Windows 95 product key before the installation process finishes, however. The actual installation process will be extremely quick on modern hardware, even in a virtual machine.
At the end of the setup process, Windows will prompt you to reboot and tell you to remove the floppy disk from your computer.
The setup process will continue setting up your hardware. As I mentioned above that it is free and avail by Microsoft itself officially along with License key. Thus, use this link which will open the page of Archive. Just on the same page, the free but official professional key for the same will have been given. Copy that and jot down somewhere like NotePad. Here is the link to Download VBox.
In case you already have the Vbox on your system then simply move to next. The installation of the VBox is like any other executable software meant for Windows nothing will be complicated at all.
Run VirtualBox and click on the New button given on the Menu of it. Now in the Name box, type- Windows XP and its corresponding options will automatically get setup. Then click on the Next button. To store the installation file we need to attach a Virtual Hard drive to our Virtual Machine.
The VirtualBox will automatically set it to 10GB which is enough. Thus, leave the default settings and click on the NEXT. Next , Select Dynamic allocated option.
File allocation and Size: By default, the VirtualBox will save all file of the machine on C: drive, if you want to change click on the folder icon and select the place. Finally, click on the Create button. Now, our XP Virtual Machine is ready, time to boot it up. For that select the created virtual machine from the left side of the VBox panel and click on the Start button given in the menu of the same.
As we are installing Windows XP on VirtualBox, thus, a single partition will appear, simply press the enter button to format the whole partition. Specify the name and version of the machine you are going to install with VBox and click on the Next button. After setting the RAM value, click the Next button. Storing the HDD file location on an external disk will be beneficial in terms of performance.
Press Enter to create the new 10 GB area for the virtual disk as a new partition. After copying the Win XP files, the virtual machine will restart for 15 seconds. If you do not want to wait for 15 seconds, you can press the Enter button to immediately execute the action. Configure the date and time settings and click Next to continue with the installation. Click on the Next button. To turn on automatic updates of the Windows XP operating system, select Help protect my PC by turning on Automatic updates now and click the Next button.
To bypass the operating system activation, select No, not at this time , and click Next. The desktop of WinXP operating system has been launched. By installing Guest Additions to WinXP virtual machine, you can share files between the virtual machine and the physical computer and also use the virtual machine as Full Screen. As you can see in the image below, you can see that the process is successful when the Win XP virtual machine running on VirtualBox is resized.
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