Re: I need a new desktop computer -- Recommendations?

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Jordan

I don't understand this. I have installed and activated XP in VMWare
with absolutely no problem.


Best wishes

Paul

On 15/04/2014 20:24, J R FOX wrote:

Another possible factor here is that it is said to be much more
difficult to activate XP in VMWare (perhaps made worse by the MS end of
support for XP) than it is to do this in VirtualBox. According to
something I was reading recently, the hacks for doing this in the latter
are much more accessible. Based on what's been discussed in this
thread, W2K won't incur such issues.


  Jordan

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  *From:* Bill Troop 
  *To:* xywrite@xxxxxxxx
  *Sent:* Tuesday, April 15, 2014 10:35 AM
  *Subject:* Re: I need a new desktop computer -- Recommendations?

  That's interesting, Kari, I didn't know you were using VMware for
  XP. May I ask whether your VBox/W2K setup allows XyWrite to access
  the host drive by letter? Its inability to do this when I was using
  was what caused me to switch to VMware. (i.e., say your host drive,
  or a folder on your host drive, has been assigned by Z:, can you get
  a directory listing of Z: in Xy4?)

  At 11/04/2014 08:33, you wrote:
   > Jordan,
   >
   > You can have both installed, but do not try to run two
  (hardware-enabled) virtualization solutions at the same time. I
  would suggest that you try to setup W2K in VMware or VirtualBox,
  whichever you prefer. Both handle this well. And this setup is
  snappy, needs no activation, and is easily portable to newer (Win 8)
  or other platforms (Mac or Linux).
   >
   > I have three virtualization programs installed, namely VirtualPc
  2007 for DOS/Win 3.1 and VirtualBox for W2K and VMware for XP mode
  (VMware even handles activation). I can run VirtualPc 2007 (not
  hardware-enabled) and one of the others (both hardware-enabled) at
  the same time without problems.
   >
   > Best regards,
   >
   > Kari Eveli
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   > 10.4.2014 22:03, J R FOX wrote:
   >> And that reminds me: did you -- or someone else on the list --
  say I can
   >> leave an already installed XP Mode in place, while trying out
  VMWare as
   >> an alternative solution, without concern about conflicts ?
  (This is on
   >> a different computer, running W7 x64.)