The current VirtualBox Platform Package for OS X hosts.Go to the Oracle VirtualBox download page, available at. Please see our page on the VMware Academic Program for more information.ġ. NOTE: VMware Fusion is available to MIS students and faculty free of charge. Our instructions use Oracle VirtualBox because it is popular, free and the UITS 24/7 IT Support Center is familiar with its operation, which may be helpful in case you need assistance. NOTE: If you already have or use a virtualization software, like Parallels or VMware Fusion, and you're knowledgeable of its functionality, you may be able to skip this phase of the instructions and proceed to phase 3, adapting those instructions for the software that you're already familiar with. This will download the software to your computer and you can use it in a future step. You will be automatically redirected to the University of Arizona Net ID log in.
To download Windows 10 from OnTheHub University of Arizona web store : If you run into technical issues or need further assistance, please refer to the Technical Support section below. Please allow enough time to troubleshoot any issues that you may encounter. Factors such as free disk space and computer account privileges can potentially result in this process taking additional time.
There are many factors which can influence the amount of time required to install a virtual machine. Technical issues and resource limitations can prevent this process from being successful.
This will patch Windows 10 and other Microsoft software, like Office 365, to ensure everything is up to date.Īdding a virtual machine to a computer is a complex, intensive process. Office 365 includes applications like Access, Excel and Word.
Once it’s installed, select “Help->About…” and it will update itself to a newer version. The latest version you can install is 43.0.1, which you can find here. The version of Explorer built into XP is so out of date it can’t even access the internet properly, so before you do anything else, you’ll need to download the FireFox installation file from your host system to a shared drive and use that to install it. These problems seem to go away once everything is patched and as up to date as possible. It will crash often, particularly when saving snapshots (luckily it will save them before crashing). Note that at least in VirtualBox, the Windows XP VM is pretty fragile until the guest additions are installed and all the patches are in place. Be sure to turn on automatic updates! There are over 60 that need to be installed. Once you’ve installed it, you’ll want to install the VBoxGuestAdditions and set them up to mount your local disks as I described for Windows 10. The product key is now freely available: M6TF9-8XQ2M-YQK9F-7TBB2-XGG88.Īt this point, you can install it in any VM, but specific instructions for VirtualBox on Mac can be found here. You can get a disk image for Windows XP SP3 here. If you haven’t installed VirtualBox, see the notes here.