If you haven't already set up a Virtual switch for the Network Adapter, you can do so at any time. Now, move up the Hardware list and select the Memory section. In other words, it will essentially be static memory. Being an older operating system, Windows XP is not supported by Hyper-V's Dynamic Memory feature, so you'll need to leave that check box unselected.
The Memory Weight slider is designed to allow you to prioritize memory usage but it is related to the Dynamic Memory feature and so in the case of Windows XP we'll just leave it as it is in the middle. To continue, go ahead and click Apply to save your settings. When you arrive at the Hard Drive section, the only thing that you may want to do is increase the size of the hard disk. By default, the hard disk is set to GB in size.
For this example machine, I want to increase the size of the hard disk to GB. To do so, click Edit button. You'll then select the Expand option, click Next, and then specify the size as GB. These two steps are illustrated. To complete the operation, click the Finish button. When you return to the Settings window, click Apply to save your changes. Keep in mind that Hyper-V creates dynamically expanding virtual hard disks. This means that the hard disk only takes up as much room as needed and can only grow to the specified size.
As you can see, at this point the size of the virtual hard disk file is 4MB. Microsoft calls this feature Seamless Mode. Be your company's Microsoft insider by reading these Windows and Office tips, tricks, and cheat sheets. Delivered Mondays and Wednesdays. As I explained in my last blog post, Create a test machine in Windows 8 Client Hyper-V , Microsoft has done away with Windows Virtual PC in favor of focusing on Hyper-V, which is a much more powerful and feature rich virtualization platform and also is the main virtualization platform in Windows Server.
However, as a side effect of doing so, the XP Mode capability has also gone by the wayside. The differences in Hyper-V's hypervisor type means that it can't provide the same access that made XP Mode's integration feature possible. However, that doesn't mean that you can't still run a Windows XP on a virtual machine in Windows 8. As I work through this article, I am going to assume that you have read my previous article , have already installed Windows 8's Client Hyper-V, and are familiar with the basic steps that I covered on setting up a virtual machine.
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I have opened the XP disk with v-box in Linux and it does want to be activated, which turns out to be impossible I've spent hours trying and I did have to replicate it once already. Thanks for the tips. When creating a virtual machine for Windows XP for this article, we'll work through the wizard. Doing so will give you a good idea of what is involved in the procedure and will be helpful later on when you need to customize the virtual machine.
To proceed, click the Next button. You'll also notice that the virtual machine will be created in the folder that I specified earlier. If you chose not to change the default location in the Hyper-V settings, you can do so here if you wish by selecting the check box, which will enable those controls. To continue, click the Next button. On the screen titled Assign Memory, you'll specify the amount of memory that you want to dedicate to your virtual machine. To arrive at the upper value in this range, Hyper-V takes the total amount of memory on the host system on my example system 4GB , calculates how much is currently in use, how much will be required by the host machine to run the virtual machine, and then sets the limit on how much you can assign to the virtual machine.
As such, I chose to specify MB in the Startup memory text box. Even though the text box is titled Startup memory, in the case of the Windows XP operating system, this will be the total amount of available memory. In other words, it will essentially be static memory. Being an older operating system, Windows XP is not supported by Hyper-V's Dynamic Memory feature , so you'll leave that check box unselected.
Moving ahead, you'll be prompted to link your virtual machine to the virtual switch that you created, as shown in Figure H. For now, you'll leave this setting at its default setting of Not Connected. In the case of Windows XP, some additional configuration is necessary when it comes to networking and we'll take care of that once we complete the wizard. So for now, just click Next. On the screen titled Connect Virtual Hard Disk, you'll see that the wizard automatically fills in the Create a virtual hard disk section.
As you can see in Figure I, the hard disk has the same name as the virtual machine, is saved in the folder that I specified, and is set to be GB in size. You can change the size if you wish.
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