I think I am not doing anything wrong, but to test our website on IE 7, 8, I am using VirtualBox 4.0.6 on Mac to run the VHD image from Microsoft:
but it keeps on asking me to "activate" Windows XP… oh well… is there a way to activate it? Can I use any special key to do it? Or what if I use my own key of my retail box of XP… but won't that affect my activation if I need to install that XP on another VirtualPC later on? I am trying to help make the website work better on IE 7 and 8… really a thing good for Microsoft, and it is making it so hard to run an expiring OS (expires on May 18, 2011) on a virtual machine.
Best Answer
It seems as though the images only allow you to restart windows 3 times before you get locked out. When locked out out of my XP/IE6 image today, I:
If you find that registration fails you may be able to: