Installing Guest Additions to the Windows XP Guest After installing the OS, I would recommend installing Guest Additions to your Windows XP machine. There is an entire chapter of the VirtualBox Manual ...

VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is a professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.

VirtualBox is flexible enough to handle many types of 32-bit and 64-bit configurations. If you need to run a 32-bit version of XP in a 64-bit host, you can do that without any problems.

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.

Oracle VirtualBox gave Windows XP a second chance To bypass the modern hardware challenges, I turned to Oracle VM VirtualBox, a free and robust virtualization tool.

Here's how to set up Windows inside VirtualBox, and then get Windows apps running seamlessly inside your desktop.