Windows 10: Running XP Professional .iso on VMWARE on Win 11

An older VMWare version 6 went haywire on my Win 10, so I figured I'd try their version 16 on Win 11 and Install a copy of XP Professional -32-bit. Everything is OK until one has to put in the Product Key. This can be found on the .iso in .txt files. But the Installer keeps refuting it [and I certainly did not get it wrong 4 times!] The only advice I can find is a a Registry Key fiddle that doesn't exist in Win 11, and b a suggestion that since XP in all its manifestations is no longer supported by Microsoft, too bad... This advice doesn't make sense, as a lot of us Users need older vers

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windows xp professional sp3 iso

Hello. I know microsoft ended support for windows xp updates and downloadable iso images in april 2014. I have a dell optiplex 2400. The hard drive died I installed a new hard drive. I have the original coa key that came with the desktop. I was thinking
that since I have the product key someone can provide me with the iso download. I tried contacting microsoft and was correct that they do not have windows xp professional sp3 downloadable iso image. Can someone provide me with a iso file for windows xp professional
sp3 please.

Thank you.

 

Disk usage 100% when run vmware on windows 10

Hello,



I request you to try running the VMware with admin rights.

Follow the steps below and check if it helps.

• Right click on VMware.
• Select Run as administrator.

I hope this helps you. If you have any further queries, feel free to contact us. We will be happy to help you.



Thank you.

 

How to convert actual XP PC with apps and files into XP VM on Win 10?

Hi there
@glnz

Happy Xmas and even SAFER New Year. !!

If you have VMWARE (player or VMWare workstation) do the following

1) First backup the XP machine with Macrium Free -- if you have problems use a partition manager to "reduce" partition size and simply use the CLONE Disk rather than IMAGE -- although stand alone Image should work to image an XP system.

2) Create a BLANK VM -- use the wizard and say I'll create the OS later. Just create a Virtual Disk of the appropriate size

3) Create (from your HOST machine) a bootable ISO from Macrium Free
(You need this step because when we start creating the XP image you want the VM to be able to load the "Virtual Disk Drivers --otherwise you'll get "No Hard Disks Found".

4) Set the ISO as the boot device for the VM

5) after the Macrium system has booted restore the XP image - You might need to attach another HDD to the VM -- depending on where you saved the XP image.

6) now boot the VM again -- this time from the VM's HDD.

7) run the install VMWARE tools package otherwise you won't get decent Video / sound / nice mouse handling etc etc.

Note - if the boot fails initially - boot again from the ISO and use the Macrium option "Fix boot problems" -- for XP though not normally an an issue.

If you then want Internet on the XP system install Firefox
To share files W10 systems need to have SMB1 enabled. There's a few other details -- I've got a few posts on XP just search the Forum

Here's an XP VM running with an MD (Minidisc recorder) - copying a CD to an MD






If you need more assistance - please post again.

While HYPER-V is good for some things - I'd suggest for older legacy OS'es and hardware use VMWare -- VBOX might also be OK - I think though VBOX and me "just don't get on" -- VMWare is simple and unless doing bonkers things with it (I do at times) it seems to work straight out of the box (at least on Windows HOST machines).

I'm actually running my XP on a Linux NAS server using VMWare -- latest kernels on Linux don't always play nice with VMWare but usually WINDOWS hosts work OK.

Cheers
jimbo