我的學習手記 A technical geek blog: Windows XP Mode

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Using Windows XP in Windows 10 by using Hyper-V client

1. Use the Windows command prompt to enable the hyper-v client on Windows 10

At the Windows command prompt (using administrator credentials), enter the following:

dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Hyper-V -All

NOTE: You must restart your computer to complete the Hyper-V installation. Depending on your computer manufacturer, you may have to pause a few seconds before restarting, for the required changes to take effect. If you use a laptop, you may have to remove the battery before restarting. After restarting the computer, you can use Hyper-V Manager or Windows PowerShell to create and manage VMs. You can also use VM Console to connect to VMs remotely.

For more detail, please reference: Using Windows 10 Client Hyper-V

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48128

2. Download Windows XP Mode

http://www.microsoft.com/en-hk/download/details.aspx?id=8002

3. Then use 7-Zip or another archive tool to open the WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe file as an archive. Within that archive, find the “sources” file within it

4. Inside the "sources", there are file "xpm", extract it again

5. Inside the folder "xpm", there are file "VirtualXPVHD"

6. Rename the "VirtualXPVHD" to "VirtualXPVHD.vhd"

7. Open the "Hyper-V manager"

8. Go to Actions, click "Virtual Switch Manager.."

9. Select "Internet" and "Create Virtual Switch"

10. Select your "External network" connection and NIC card.

11. Create a new virtual machine

12. Select "Generation 1"

13. Select the connection you create for external connection

14. Select "attach a virtual hard disk later"

15. Select the VM which is you just create, go to setting and select "IDE Controller 0", select "Hard disk", then "Add".

16. Click "Broswe.." and select the vhd file "VirtualXPVHD.vhd"

17. Select the VM. connect and turn on the VM. Then connect the Windows XP post setup follow the wizard.

18. Ignore those unknown hardware during the post setup first.

19. You will see the Windows XP after the configuration complete.

20. Down the “vmguest.iso” to install the "Integration Services" for Windows XP or copy this ISO file from a Windows 2012 R2 machine which is enable Hyper-V. (The “vmguest.iso” under C:\Windows\System32)

https://onedrive.live.com/?id=4A4A4C07841B3A54%21107000&cid=4A4A4C07841B3A54&group=0&parId=root&authkey=%21AK1o_X3qu143-rw&action=locate

21. Mount the “vmguest.iso” to install “Integration Services”