
There are many different open source licenses but they all must comply with the Open Source Definition - in brief: the software can be freely used, modified and shared. Programs released under this license can be used at no cost for both personal and commercial purposes. Open Source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify or enhance.

Freeware products can be used free of charge for both personal and professional (commercial use). Cancel all of the new hardware installation and Microsoft Automatic Update wizards and head to Devices.Freeware programs can be downloaded used free of charge and without any time limitations. When you get to a completely black screen press Right Ctrl + R to restart the virtual machine. Don’t too excited just yet, however, as there are a couple more stages to get through. Stage 12: Go to Network settings in VirtualBox and check that all of your network settings have been automatically applied to the virtual machine. Stage 11: Then go to Display and increase the video memory to 128mb. You want to put Hard Disk to the top of the list. Go to the VirtualBox toolbar and select Settings. Stage 10: Before you get started on your new virtual machine running Windows XP you need to do a little playing around with various settings. Once you’re done you should have something that looks a little like this: This is where we go back and get the virtual hard disk we created earlier. Stage 9: You now need to assign a hard disk to your virtual machine. Anything between 512mb and 2048mb will be fine but remember that your computer needs to use RAM too. Stage 8: Now you have to assign the RAM you want your virtual machine to be able to use. Select Expert Mode and then give your virtual machine a suitable name, like Windows XP Mode. Stage 7: Once you’ve downloaded and installed VirtualBox open it and select New.

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Stage 6: Now that you have the virtual hard drive you’re going to need a virtualization program to run your virtual copy of Windows XP on. This will change the file into a virtual hard disk. between the P and the V so that the file is now called VirtualXP.VHD. Stage 5: Once the files have all been extracted, head over to the location you selected and select the file VirtualXPVHD.
