Close and Re-start your Virtual Windows XP Machine.This just means XP has attempted to restart but can’t within a virtual machine. Once you have finished configuring and setting up XP the screen will go black. If you have this problem, disable mouse integration. Windows XP will now start-up in your virtual machine, you may find your mouse won’t move within the virtual machine.On the left panel in VirtualBox you will now see your Virtual Windows XP Machine, press it and click the big green –> Start button.Step Three: Installing Internet Explorer 8 Choose the radio button that says “Use an existing virtual hard drive file”.Choose a Memory Size (2048 recommended).Enter a name for your Virtual Machine, e.g vmXP.The folder you extracted to should now look something like this : Rename the file VirtualXPVHD so it has the extension.Extract the file “VirtualXPVHD” to a folder on your desktop.Right click WindowsXPMode.exe > 7-Zip > Open Archive.Load up 7-Zip and navigate to where you downloaded WindowsXPMode.exe.Step One: Extracting the VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) Install a Virtual Machine (in this tutorial we use VirtualBox):.
So here’s a quick guide on how to do just that. The solution was to create a Virtual Machine that would run Windows XP and fire up I.E 8 from within it. We soon found out that Internet Explorer 8 will not work with Windows 8. We recently received a request from a client to convert some PDF files to HTML with BuildVu and test whether they worked correctly in Internet Explorer 8. Setting Up an XP Virtual Machine to run I.E 8 Nathan also enjoys writing technical blog-articles and playing games in his spare time. Nathan Howard Nathan is a Java/HTML5 developer.