{"id":191,"date":"2012-10-22T22:19:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T03:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2012-11-04T19:29:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T01:29:47","slug":"installing-optimized-xp-in-virtualbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Installing Optimized XP in VirtualBox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I demonstrated how to create a custom Microsoft Windows XP setup ISO optimized for installation in a virtual machine environment using <a title=\"Deployment Tool for the Bootable Unattended Windows ISO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nliteos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">nLite<\/a>\u00a0(The how-to can be found\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Optimizing XP for a Virtual Machine\" href=\"http:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?page_id=68\">here<\/a><\/strong>.). We started with an approximate 500 MB ISO and removed components\/services using the nLite utility and pared that down to less than 80 MB. This week I&#8217;ll show you how well the unattended install works in <a title=\"VirtualBox Website\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">VirtualBox<\/a> and the benefits of doing so.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t done so yet, head over to the <a title=\"VirtualBox Website\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">VirtualBox<\/a> website and get the binaries needed installed:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"VirtualBox Downloads\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Downloads\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Downloads<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The how-to can be found\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Installing Optimized XP in VirtualBox\" href=\"http:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?page_id=371\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I demonstrated how to create a custom Microsoft Windows XP setup ISO optimized for installation in a virtual machine environment using nLite\u00a0(The how-to can be found\u00a0here.). We started with an approximate 500 MB ISO and removed components\/services using the nLite utility and pared that down to less than 80 MB. This week I&#8217;ll &#8230; <a title=\"Installing Optimized XP in VirtualBox\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?p=191\" aria-label=\"Read more about Installing Optimized XP in VirtualBox\">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-191","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\/191","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=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}