How to run XP on Linux Mint with Oracle VirtualBox | Linux Today

How to run XP on Linux Mint with Oracle VirtualBox

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Apr 15, 2014

For those times when you absolutely must still run Windows XP, one safer way of doing it is to run XP in a virtual machine using the Oracle VirtualBox hypervisor on Linux Mint.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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