Right click the VM and select ‘Settings’.ġ4. Your new VM should display in the list of Virtual Machines. Here I have an ISO image of Windows XP so I browse to its location and press ‘Next’.ġ3. Select to install from a CD/DVD and choose either the physical dvd drive of your Windows 10 PC (if you have the install cd for your guest vm) or select the ISO image.

Create a new virtual disk, again I call it apps to generalise this VM.

Select the ‘Default Switch’ from the drop down and press ‘Next’.ġ0. Checking Dynamic memory just means the VM will use memory as it needs it rather than using the total amount at all times. If you are running a Windows 7 or 8 guest VM 4096 is generally more appropriate. 1024 or 2048 work fine for most XP guest VM’s. Select an appropriate amount of memory for your OS and application. Select ‘Generation 1’ and press ‘Next’.Ĩ. Next give your virtual machine a name, here I just call it APPS to generalise it. Once Hyper-V is installed load up the Hyper-V Manager and select New->Virtual Machine.Ħ. Tick Hyper-V and ensure all of the sub components are selected and press ‘OK’.Ĥ. Next select ‘Turn Windows features on or off’ģ. Open up control panel and click on Programs.Ģ. First lets go ahead and install Hyper-V onto a fully updated Windows 10 install. We needed something similar to the old XP mode found in Windows 7 but its not strictly available in Windows 10 however there is this kinda XP mode workaround for Windows 10 here.ġ. We needed a solution to to run the application on XP but keep the user on a modern OS. Its been getting more and more difficult to run XP on old hardware especially with USB3 compatibility issues but we just cant let the client continue running XP or even Windows 7 any longer. The software is due to be updated but its a project which will take a couple of years to complete. Unfortunately this application is well over 15 years old, is unsupported and is mission critical to the client… oh no another one of those!

I recently had the task of getting an ancient application working for a client on brand new Windows 10 PC’s. Remote Desktop Windows 10 Virtual Applications AKA XP Mode

Emulate windows xp on windows 10