{"id":14,"date":"2012-10-20T22:42:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T03:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2012-10-25T09:18:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T14:18:53","slug":"optimizing-xp-for-a-virtual-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Optimizing XP for a Virtual Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming soon (possibly tomorrow depending on how motivated I get)&#8230;I&#8217;ll publish instructions on how to create a barebones installation of Windows XP for installation inside a VM. Why, do you ask? Well, as you know a default install of XP can top a couple gigs and the boot is not terribly quick. My optimized XP has a footprint of approximately 300 MB installed and boots in about 15 seconds in VirtualBox on my 2011 MacBook Air&#8230;not too shabby.<\/p>\n<p>A quick look at what you&#8217;ll need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Windows eXperience\" href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-US\/windows\/products\/windows-xp\" target=\"_blank\">Windows XP<\/a> (CD or ISO)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Deployment Tool for the Bootable Unattended Windows ISO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nliteos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">nLite<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Computer running VM (<a title=\"Oracle VirtualBox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">VirtualBox<\/a> is recommended)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> \u00a0My xpLite ISO came in at a slim 82 MB!<\/p>\n<p>The how-to can be found <strong><a title=\"Optimizing XP for a Virtual Machine\" href=\"http:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?page_id=68\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming soon (possibly tomorrow depending on how motivated I get)&#8230;I&#8217;ll publish instructions on how to create a barebones installation of Windows XP for installation inside a VM. Why, do you ask? Well, as you know a default install of XP can top a couple gigs and the boot is not terribly quick. My optimized XP &#8230; <a title=\"Optimizing XP for a Virtual Machine\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?p=14\" aria-label=\"Read more about Optimizing XP for a Virtual Machine\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}