Hello everybody and welcome back to another video now in today's video
We're going to be doing yet another windows related experiment
And this one I think is actually gonna be kind of fun
you guys may have seen in my last video on that virtual machine deception where I basically tried to
Install a bunch of different layers of different virtual machines
Inside of other virtual machines and that video did very well and it kind of got me thinking
to take a little bit of a different approach to that and
What we're gonna be doing today is as I install a Sun VirtualBox here
uh We're going to be trying to install Windows 10
inside of Windows XP
And so yeah
we're gonna be trying this out in today's video and just see if we can actually do this and
How it's actually going to work now the kind of funny thing. You guys can probably tell
Because this looks like a very similar setup to a lot of my videos is we're already inside of a virtual machine right now
So I'm you know recording this video
I'm on my Windows 10 host computer and we have a Windows XP virtual machine set up here
So we're basically going to be trying to install another layer, you know
Another virtual machine, which is gonna be Windows 10 inside of this virtual machine. So it's a little bit of vm exception as well
but the added challenge is that
We're trying to install a newer OS
On an older OS as opposed to the other way around like it usually is and the added challenge
For us here as well
An additional challenge is that we are using a 32-bit release of 1 as XP, which is pretty typical
I mean most versions of XP were 32-bit. There was a 64-bit release
that wasn't really as
popular but the reason why that's going to kind of add a bit of a issue for us is because we're only
Limited to 4 gigabytes of memory that the system can actually use so I have maxed that out
We are using 4 gigs of RAM in this virtual machine
So we're only going to be able to allocate probably half of the memory
So that would be 2 gigabytes to the Windows 10 virtual machine. So we're gonna be trying that out
I assume this is going to work because I actually did this
Of course, it was with Windows 7 but back when I ran a Windows Vista
install on one of my older computers I actually
you know did a couple of videos on Windows 7 and I in
All the windows seven in a VM and it worked totally fine
I mean why wouldn't it but we're just gonna be seeing if we run into any issues
but let's just go ahead and this is kind of funny that the window, you know, this is such an old release of a
VirtualBox here. This is the same one that I did in that um XP Mode video and
The latest Windows release at this time was Windows 7
So we're just going to choose that as the preset and we're going to give them the machine actually
I wonder if it's even going to allow us to put
Its actually oh my gosh, it's not gonna allow us to put two gigabytes. That's I wonder if we can set other windows
Yeah, it's actually maxing out at
1000 to 500 megabytes so it's about one and a half gigs of RAM
That's like it will not go further than that. That's actually very interesting
So we're gonna basically give this the maximum amount of memory that it will allow us to give it
I wonder if that's a preset thing like I wonder if we just choose other and other if it will
Know that is still the same thing
So that is interesting that probably has something to do with you know this being once again a 32-bit programming
So yeah, that is actually going to add another a bit of a challenge to us as well
Let's see if VirtualBox will even allow us to max this out
because it might do what it did in that previous video and say those kind of
Undesirable conditions, you know because you're using too much memory for the VM, so we're gonna try that out
It says that the recommended size of the hard disk is 20 gigs. I think I gave this machine a 40 gig hard drive
Actually, I gave a 20 gig I might actually have to increase that. Alright, so we're back and I have
increased the XP machines
Hard drive 240 and gigabytes and I actually had to use um ease us partition management to accomplish that which was great
So he had the VM this XP VM now has of a 40 gig drive
Then I created a Windows 10 VM here using the Windows 7 preset
Gave it 1.5 gigs of memory as well as a 25 gigabyte hard drive
So this was the maximum amount of memory, as I said before the VirtualBox actually allows me to give it
so now what we're going to do is go in here to storage and we're going to
Mount the ISO file that I have on the desktop right here
So we're going to hit. Okay, select and
hopefully if everything works and
Hopefully if everything works, we should be able to boot from this and actually install Windows 10
without any problems
But let's see if it actually goes that way because there's probably gonna be at least one thing
That doesn't go according to plan. So let's just see here
Okay, so he's saying it's optimized working 32-bit color mode
Display, yeah, that's fine. That's just one of a VirtualBox wonderful messages there. It's not actually able to like display the entire screen on
Like, you know all at once like just you know, got all these different scroll. What the heck? Oh, okay. Oh, well, this is so
Yeah, this apparently is a 64-bit image
so obviously that really isn't going to work so because it just straight up tells you this 64-bit application couldn't load it because your PC
Doesn't have a 64-bit processor. Okay, so yeah a slight mishap there
I kind of thought that that ISO image that I had was one of those like dual ones where it had both
32-bit and 64-bit
Like, you know, you could choose from either one. Um, so now I have downloaded a
32-bit only image so we should be able to actually boot from it this time, which would be helpful
And yeah, let's see if if we can actually get this installed
I'm sure that some of you guys will be saying down in the comments
like why on earth are you trying this because there is literally no like
reason for me to be doing this other than
Just to see if we can actually do it
That's basically the only reason why I'm doing this, I'm already running Windows 10 on my host computer
So like in a use case scenario
There's no real need for me to install Windows 10 inside of a VM that I'm already running on my Windows 10 computer
But it's just for you guys and just to see if we can actually accomplish this on video. That's why I'm doing this
So we're just going to let him lose ten boot up here. It is definitely taking a decent amount of time the
Like, you know spinning spiral hasn't even started yet
so that's definitely, you know taken longer than it usually does at least from my experience, but
That is probably because we're going through two virtualization layers and the RAM has been cut to two
Gigabytes and are actually not even two gigabytes. It's like one and a half gigs of RAM
So hopefully we'll we'll get somewhere, but we will see
Alright, so actually to my surprise we weren't able to install Windows 10 inside of this version of VirtualBox right here
basically, what was happening is the
OS was actually freezing on the initial boot phase and it was not going past that I actually tried to install VMware Player
But the version like the the oldest version that I was able to find
Needed a 64-bit processor, which obviously we don't have
Ok, so I just want to interrupt
This video very briefly here because I want to touch on
Some other things that I've been trying to do and you can probably see by what we have set up here
I was actually able to find a
Copy of VMware that works under one O's XP. This right here is actually VMware Player
I believe it's version 3.0 and I have tried to run this I was able to run it under
VMware Player on my host computer and right now I am I've set up a whole new
XP VM in VirtualBox and let me just show you what happens when we actually try to run Windows 10 year we get in a
Bit of a different result and I want to kind of briefly show you what happens here
it doesn't just hang but it actually gets caught in a boot loop and
Basically what happens is is it still does not show the actual like wheel like the actual
You know progress wheel like it usually does one when it boots up
It just does that it just immediately like resets the VM?
Another thing that was happening when I actually tried to run this in the other VMware Player virtual machine on my host computer
I would also get an unexpected
kernel mode trap error
it would actually show a blue screen of death and then it would restore and we get like caught in that boot loop and
Looking a bad error. It actually corresponds or one of the things that it could correspond to is a hardware problem
So I'm thinking that you know that definitely has, you know something to do with the multiple virtualization layers
I even tried modifying some settings in the actual vmx file itself on my host computer
and modifying the
processor settings on that as well, and that didn't fix anything either I would think and I'm going to actually
We try this in a future video
That actually running this on like regular hardware like a regular XP 2 laptop
Might actually work because it wouldn't have to be going through multiple virtualization layers
It might still not work
But if you guys want to see like another attempt to be sure to actually let me know down in the comments
but yeah, I have I have gone through here and tried to like
You know go through all of these options here. I have tried to actually
Install what you're gonna see I've tried to install a couple of other different virtual machine solvers
well, mainly Virtual PC was the only other one that I tried and
then I actually took up a little bit of a different approach and I'm just gonna let my
Past self explain that to you in this next clip. So yeah, unfortunately
Using VMware Player did not work either. So yeah kind of sucks. But let's just move on to some other attempts
So we're gonna try a couple of different things. The first thing we're gonna try is to install Virtual PC
2007 which I know will work on Windows XP. This is gonna be kind of a long shot
I don't think that we'll be able to install it in here because we weren't able to do it in VirtualBox
I'd be very surprised if it actually worked but we're just gonna be trying it to see if it yields us any different results and
If this doesn't work
which I think it's not going to we're gonna a few move on and actually go down one release from Windows 10 so Windows 8.1
and we're gonna try to
install that and see if we can get that to work for whatever reason in Virtual PC here is taking its sweet time to
Go to the next screen. You can see that this phase is already done
The bar has gone all the way across for some reason. It's just not wanting to move to the next screen. It's we're just gonna
Wait on that you can see that the actual icon has showed up in the oh look at that
We can actually oh, there we go. Okay, so I think it's done now. No, it's not
Well, we can actually run run the program
So we're going to actually create a new VM which has already popped up actually, and we're going to go next
We're gonna create a new virtual machine. We're gonna call this win 10
second attempts
If I can spell correctly, we'll hit next here
We're going to get ya. We'll just choose other because there's nothing like the highest thing as Windows Vista
So well, let's go with other here and you know configure the RAM Marcel
I actually don't know how oh
It looks like we can actually give it more than one-and-a-half gigs of RAM like VirtualBox did so we'll actually give this two gigs
Right on the dot. So 2048 and hit next we're going to use a new virtual hard disk. We will give this
20 actually we'll be able to do 20 gigs
So about 20 thousand, I know that isn't exact. We'll just give it twenty thousand megabytes hit next finish
Literally don't know what's going on with a setup wizard. It's lured taken forever
we're just not gonna worry about that for now and we're gonna go into our CD drive and we're going actually
It's it's been a while since I've used virtual PC. You can tell you have to actually do it from
Once you actually start the VM up here, you have to capture ISO image and we're going to capture
This 1903 x86 which is Windows 10 version 1903
So we'll capture that and see if it actually works here
Which I'm sure it's gonna be able to boot from the CD totally fine, I just think it's going to actually not
Want to get past this this phase which is basically what VirtualBox did as well. So we'll let it sit on this
screen for a little bit here and
Hope that it does something different, but I highly doubt that it's going to actually work
Alright. Yeah, so it's been a little bit here and we have not gotten anywhere
So that is kind of what I thought was going to happen
It's not a good sign, but we're not gonna give up just yet. Like I said, we do have another plan here
It's not gonna be Windows 10
But it will be somewhat close to Windows 10. I still have no idea. What's what's going on with this setup here
We'll just cancel the installation if it even allows us to do that or it'll just sit here for the rest of the video
That's totally fine with me
But yeah, we're going to actually try out
The Windows 8 I so far the Windows 8.1
File that I have downloaded we're gonna see if that gives us any different results. So this is a 32 bit copy
of Windows 8.1. Obviously, it's English
So we're gonna keep it with the same settings that we gave the other VM, you know
Like the Windows 10 one so that's gonna be one and a half gigs of RAM
So we'll go ahead and just power this on see if we get any better results
Which I think that we will but of course
I'm not 100% sure, but let's just hope for the best. So we've got that same boot screen here and okay, so we've actually got
Something different happening. At least it actually did something this time instead of just hanging like Windows 10
Did it actually gave us an error code? It says that your PC needs to restart and
VirtualBox has come up with a guru
Meditation a critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine of the machine execution has been stopped. Okay
Well, that was a quick fail
We've actually gone back one more release to Windows 8 and we're actually running the Windows 8 release preview here because it's the latest
ISO file that I actually had downloaded so we'll see if this gives us any different results
I was kind of hoping we'd be getting better results at the moment then then what we're actually getting
Ok, so that also didn't work it gave us a very similar error code up here with all these parameters here
So yeah, I'm kind of disappointed. I thought we were gonna get like some better results. Um, but
Apparently you can't really run Windows 10 inside of Windows XP at least in the setup that I have here
um, it might be if I tried this on like I'm like a
Physical piece of hardware, you know where it's not going through a virtualization layer. It might actually work
But I think for now guys that is actually going to go ahead and end it off for this video
Yeah wasn't really the results that I wanted. I'm sure you guys want to actually see this working
But we do have these videos where occasionally things just don't work out as planned, but hopefully this was still somewhat enjoyable
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