Virtualization - ReactOS on VirtualBox 6.1

 

Installed and working

• Idea came from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e29I3dA8o4
• Host platform: Microsoft Windows 10 64-bits
• Hypervisor: VirtualBox 6.1
• ReactOS image downloaded from https://reactos.org/. Only the nightly build works. 
• Full VirtualBox configuration as below
• For OS only: HDD 4GB
• For OS and Office packages etc: HDD 10GB
• For OS, packages and extra space: HDD 20GB

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
** If you make changes to this file while any VirtualBox related application
** is running, your changes will be overwritten later, without taking effect.
** Use VBoxManage or the VirtualBox Manager GUI to make changes.
-->
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.virtualbox.org/" version="1.17-windows">
  <Machine uuid="{07795fd6-2615-4564-ab5b-b897e1575e64}" name="ReactOS" OSType="Windows2000" snapshotFolder="Snapshots" lastStateChange="2021-07-27T09:00:44Z">
    <MediaRegistry>
      <HardDisks>
        <HardDisk uuid="{b1124f40-9cb2-406e-85e7-38e823855244}" location="ReactOS.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal"/>
      </HardDisks>
      <DVDImages>
        <Image uuid="{a8ef16eb-353e-4a99-ae86-920e74bed11b}" location="F:/VMs, Emulators, Simulators/_Media Library/ReactOS-0.4.13-release-28-g5724391.iso"/>
        <Image uuid="{9572aa2a-4bc6-4317-8a47-325a81e5cf55}" location="F:/VMs, Emulators, Simulators/_Media Library/reactos-bootcd-0.4.15-dev-2965-g9a42267-x86-gcc-lin-dbg.iso"/>
      </DVDImages>
    </MediaRegistry>
    <ExtraData>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastCloseAction" value="PowerOff"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastNormalWindowPosition" value="-1837,-105,1600,1251"/>
    </ExtraData>
    <Hardware>
      <CPU>
        <PAE enabled="true"/>
        <NestedHWVirt enabled="true"/>
        <LongMode enabled="false"/>
        <HardwareVirtExLargePages enabled="true"/>
      </CPU>
      <Memory RAMSize="1024"/>
      <HID Pointing="USBTablet"/>
      <Display VRAMSize="32" accelerate3D="true"/>
      <VideoCapture file="." fps="25"/>
      <BIOS>
        <SmbiosUuidLittleEndian enabled="true"/>
      </BIOS>
      <USB>
        <Controllers>
          <Controller name="OHCI" type="OHCI"/>
        </Controllers>
      </USB>
      <Network>
        <Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="0800273DE63B" type="Am79C970A">
          <DisabledModes>
            <InternalNetwork name="intnet"/>
            <NATNetwork name="NatNetwork"/>
          </DisabledModes>
          <BridgedInterface name="Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (11) I219-V"/>
        </Adapter>
      </Network>
      <AudioAdapter driver="DirectSound" enabled="true" enabledOut="true"/>
      <Clipboard/>
      <GuestProperties>
        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/HostInfo/GUI/LanguageID" value="en_US" timestamp="1627376444066822000" flags=""/>
      </GuestProperties>
      <StorageControllers>
        <StorageController name="IDE" type="PIIX3" PortCount="2" useHostIOCache="true" Bootable="true">
          <AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" hotpluggable="false" port="0" device="0">
            <Image uuid="{b1124f40-9cb2-406e-85e7-38e823855244}"/>
          </AttachedDevice>
          <AttachedDevice passthrough="false" type="DVD" hotpluggable="false" port="1" device="0">
            <Image uuid="{9572aa2a-4bc6-4317-8a47-325a81e5cf55}"/>
          </AttachedDevice>
        </StorageController>
      </StorageControllers>
    </Hardware>
    <Groups>
      <Group name="/Active VMs"/>
    </Groups>
  </Machine>
</VirtualBox>