You can get a disk image for Windows XP SP3 here. Unfortunately, I now do not have any time to play anything.If you haven’t installed VirtualBox, see the notes here. Save with the iso extension, and VirtualBox will mount them just fine. Install ISORecorder (the Windows 7 version works with Windows 8) and now the contextual menu (right-click) for CD's includes a "Create Image from CD" option. Installing CD's is a pain, and Riven wants to keep swapping them, but making them virtual images makes it much easier. I don't feel guilty about using a pirated operating system license, since I am running Windows 8 legally, and Microsoft won't sell me XP. I got a new bios from vmlite, and install it as: path\to\VirtualBoxFolder\VBoxManage.exe setextradata your-vm-name "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/BiosRom" "path\to\pcbios.bin"Īnd it all seems to work. To activate Windows XP, you can try the file named KEY in the exe file with the virtual hard drive, but the comments on lifehacker indicate it won't work. You don't want this virus-friendly operating system talking to the internet!
In the VirtualBox Manager, in the Network tab, unclick "Cable Connected". In the "Devices" menu in the virtual machine's menu bar, select "Insert Guest Additions CD image" then run that installer in the virtual machine. Start up the virtual machine, deal with the craziness of mouse capturing (toggle the right control key to get the mouse back) until you install "Guest Additions": This will give you a new virtual machine that will require you register within 30 days, which you can't do (since Windows XP isn't supported anymore). In VirtualBox, create a new virtual machine running Windows XP, and instead of creating a new virtual hard drive, use the one created above. Export it and rename it to VirtualXPVHD.vhd Within that archive, find the sources/xpm file within it, and extract that folder to your hard drive.įinally, in the extracted xpm file, you'll find a file called VirtualXPVHD. Then use 7-Zip open the EXE file as an archive. Note that it won't run directly on Windows 8, but you can extract the. vhd file) through its Windows XP mode for Windows 7.
Luckily, Oracle offers VirtualBox to run virtual machines, and Microsoft offers a Windows XP virtual hard drive (. I wanted to run some of my old games (notably Riven) on my shiny new Windows 8.1 machine, but it wouldn't even try to install on a 64-bit operating system.
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