Running 32-bit Windows XP/Vista on VirtualBox

Allright, so I've been looking around for simplest option to get you up and running if you have a 64-bit machine that does not run the HC11 toolset. So as I mentioned in the class, you can use VirtualBox which is an Open Source software by Oracle.

• go the following link and download the appropriate VirtualBox binary for your OS (yes, there is a version for Mac/OS X as well)
• https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
• Once downloaded, install VirtualBox on your computer
• Now that you have VirtualBox installed, go to modern.ie following website that is hosted by Microsoft, and it provides you with variations of free and ready to go Virtual Machine appliances (e.g. 32 bit Windows XP or Windows 7) that you can download and use out-of-box, so you don't have to manually install XP or Vista on your VirtualBox:
• https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads
• Note that modern.ie was introduced for browser testing that's why there is all kinds of flavours for different Internet Explorer IEs.
• I selected Mac and downloaded XP for IE6, since it occupied less space on disk, and tested HC11 tools set successfully, it should be the same if you are running Windows machine.
• Select a flavour of Windows & IE follow a few instructions to download the required file  (see example below for Windows: on the left you select you computer's OS, and read the instructions, on the right you'll select the version of Windows and a flavour of IE)

• Once the files are downloaded and extracted, you should be able to download the files and it will automatically open using VirtualBox, and it will ask you to import the downloaded virtual machine. 

Note: The are commercial virtual machine software such as VMWare and Parallels Desktop, but VirtualBox works just as well, at least for what we need in this course.