virtualbox/xpmode - vmlite pcbios.bin

dinosaur · 23 Nov 2017

Jiggering search terms, I found these 2 links:

Long Live WindowsXp/Run XP in a Virtual Box for free - Ashwani Kumar

VMLite XP Mode Plugin for VirtualBox and Virtutal Box 4.0 - VMLite

I did not create another virtual xpmode, i just applied pcbios.bin to the one I already have. I put the pcbios.bin file in the same directory as VBoxManage.exe and ran the command as follows (quotes and all, just sub in your virtualization name in place of my xpmodej2)

“C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" setextradata xpmodej2 "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/BiosRom" "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\pcbios.bin"

I guess I will know in a month or so if this works

Hopachi · 27 Nov 2017

I've tried this once and worked right away.

dinosaur said:

I did not create another virtual xpmode, i just applied pcbios.bin to the one I already have.

If that's a XPMode VM, it will work, if it's not (like a regular xp self-installed), it won't.
Just put the file in the VM folder, that way it's put in the right place for always.

dinosaur said:

I guess I will know in a month or so if this works

I don't get what you mean by that.
It should work instantly.