In my continuing quest to both try new things in general, and try new things that will help me be more productive, I recently set up VirtualBox.

Before, I had left WinXP running on my laptop, and I would remote desktop into it to run any Windows-only application I required. (About 3 of these.)

I want to eventally remove any installed Windows altogether, and just bring up a virtualized WinXP when I have to run one of these applications. It’s a minor step in one sense, but I like the idea of removing Windows entirely from any “real” machine I have.

Installation
There’s really not much to say about installing VirtualBox, because it’s just as easy as one could hope. I chose the binary version (I understand it has a few more features than the OSE version).

After that, as seems with so many things, there are a few minor things to do to get things working how you like:

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