From virtualbox select the Win XP OS> settings > display.By default you will see 3D acceleration is disabled. To check the installed version, you can run a program (dxdiag) that will allow you to check the status of your directX. In order to enable it you will need to install a recent version of DirectX. But, there could be some game requiring 3D acceleration. The configuration setting above should be enough to run majority of games. Annex 1 - Video configuration (enable 3D acceleration) If you already have a game available in your game shared folder, just search for it from the guest, run it and enjoy! Otherwise, download it from squakenet (search from your host or your guest, unzip and run it!). Step 7 - How to finally play Windows games in XP Don't remove or you'll need to mount it again from scratch. Very important: the Guest Additions will be mounted in the Windows XP OS as a portable drive (D: in our case). The folder will be represented in the guest as You will be able to setup a virtual drive: in our case we have mounted a directory "d:/games" from host so, all downloaded game will be automatically available from guest. To create a shared folder, you can shutdown the guest OS, and from the virtualbox "settings>shared folders", Let the system to install and just reboot in normal mode.Īt reboot, you'll get the possibility to use new features, like video resizing or shared folders. Once it has started, select the command "Devices>Install Guest additions" from command menu. It will give you the menu and you will choose, "Start in Safe mode" (no matter if you select with or without network. Just restart the guest,Īnd press F8 right before OS boot. In order to install the guest additions, you need to restart the Win XP in Safe Mode. Shared folders (useful to move files from host to guest and viceversa) and video enhancement. But before, it's better you configure guest additions that will enable useful feature, in particular, Your Windows XP guest operating system is now ready to work. You can unmount the ISO since you won't need for the moment. Once it's finished the system will reboot from hard disk. The process can last several minutes since it will format the hard drive and configure. Make sure you boot from CD the first time. Select the drive and create a new CD/DVD drive assigning the ISO file related to the Win XP installation CD. Simulate the presence of installation disc by creating a virtual drive.
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