![]() Leave this at default ( Dynamically allocated) and click Continue File location and size Select VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) and click Continue Storage on physical hard drive Select Create a virtual hard drive now and click Create Hard drive file type The default of 192 MB here is sufficient for this optimized image…click Continue Hard Drive Name your VM and click Continue (make sure you select Windows XP for the OS Version) Memory Size Now that we’ve got our optimized XP ISO created and VirtualBox installed, let’s see how well this image works…fire up your copy of VirtualBox and click New (Ctrl-N) to start the Create Virtual Machine Wizard. If you haven’t done so yet, head over to the VirtualBox website and get the binaries needed installed: This week I’ll show you how well the unattended install works in VirtualBox and the benefits of doing so. 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. ![]() Last week I demonstrated how to create a custom Microsoft Windows XP setup ISO optimized for installation in a virtual machine environment using nLite (The how-to can be found here.).
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