mpack Site Moderator Posts: 38111 Joined: 4. This should be fine for moderate CAD, older games, and all non-fussy graphical apps. A bit out of date (like all hardware in a VM) but ok. So provided you have decent host graphics with a good OpenGL layer, and you use the correct guest as mentioned with the Guest Additions installed and 3D acceleration enabled. What VirtualBox does do is provide an accelerated graphics emulation which is implemented using OpenGL. To be clear some more: a VM never uses host hardware directly, so you can never expect a VM to use the host GPU directly. To be clear, guest apps can indeed use accelerated graphics if you configure the VM correctly and install the right guest OS. I have fond memories of it too, but I must admit that being two decades old at this point inevitably means that XP isn't going to be the #1 priority for the devs. 6.0.x) that still provided accelerated graphics for XP. If you had said that the application needs better graphics acceleration then I would have told you to install nothing older than Windows 7, or else use an older version of VirtualBox (i.e. It's a pity that you didn't clearly state your intentions at the start. How do you get DVD's to be recognized in virtual Windows XP drive D: via Windows 7 optical drive L: or drive M: ? meeshu Posts: 11 Joined: 6. I have had a search for others with similar issues, but despite trying to follow some suggested solutions by making changes in settings here and there in VirtualBox, I can't seem to get the DVD-ROM to be recognized. So it appears that Windows XP optical drive D: is not associated with Windows 7 optical drive L: nor drive M: ? File Name: Author: BurningThumb Studios License:Shareware (24. Make virtual copies of CDs - faster access, protect the originals. Use instead of a CD burner because a Virtual CD burner is 10x faster. ![]() It uses a disk image, but appears to Mac OS X as a CD. :, but the software is unable to locate the DVD-ROM regardless of whether the DVD-ROM is in Windows 7 drive L: and M: !? Virtual CD RW Mac - easy to use virtual CD drive for Mac. When attempting to run the installed software in Windows XP, the software asks for the DVD-ROM to be inserted within the optical drive D Virtual Windows XP under VirtualBox shows that there are just two drives are available, drive C: (the HDD) and an optical drive labeled D. In order to run the installed software, it requires that a disc remain inserted within an optical drive. This was followed by the installation in Windows XP under VirtualBox of software via Windows 7 optical drive M. Then installed Windows XP SP3 in VirtualBox via Windows 7 optical drives (drives L: and M:). ![]() Now click on the tiny floppy disk icon with the “+” symbol (you might need to unselect specific entries in the storage tree to have it not grayed out, as it is in the above screen capture).Just installed VirtualBox version 6.1.32 under host Windows 7 64 bit SP1. To add a device, however, you’ll want to click on “Storage” along the top row.Īlmost there. Lots of things to tweak for a given OS, actually: ![]() Now that it’s not running, click on the “Settings” gear icon on the top left of this window. The Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager window should then show it as “Powered Off”, as Solaris shows here: Click “OK” then power down your Linux system exactly as if it were on a computer of its own. Fail to do so, and you’ll get an error like this when you try to connect the virtual DVD to the system: If you haven’t tried VirtualBox yet, it’s quite impressive as a virtualization environment, and while it might have less bells and whistles than Parallels or VMWare Fusion, it’s hard to beat the price, and it really does work just fine for many situations where you need a different OS virtualized rather than as an alternative boot OS.Īs with the two better known commercial options, VirtualBox requires that you power down the virtual machine to make any modifications, and that’s really key to what you want to accomplish. Nicely done! I’m actually running something even more improbable on my Mac system through Oracle’s free-to-download VirtualBox system: Solaris 11.
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