NT 4 or Win2000 would be smaller, and as long as the VM doesn’t need internet/network access the security issues should be…manageable. Alternately, does it run under Wine? A stripped-down Linux distro would be small.
(and i assume you don’t have the source code, that would be the best solution) Brendan > On May 1, 2016, at 10:28 AM, Mike Whalen <mi...@thecomputervalet.com> wrote: > > I can’t really tell if this is on-topic, but there’s [no|some|much] shame > in trying? > > I have a Visual Basic 4 application that I need to run on modern 64-bit > hardware I can do this in a VM, but I really need this VM to be wicked > small, like under a gig. The smallest XP VM I’ve seen is 600MB (which might > be good) but XP is becoming very hard to source these days. > > I am bummed that there doesn’t seem to be something like vDOS or DOSBOX for > VB applications. Or… maybe there is? > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might go about doing this? > > m