I still have to support the occasional XP client even though I manage a data
center (some of our devs still work in XP) so I use VirtualBox to run a virtual
XP client. That way if they have a question or I need to describe or document
something I can start it up and work in XP right on my Windows 7 desktop.
Works great and it's free.
Dan
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On Jan 27, 2013, at 12:32 AM, Fmiser wrote:
>> M G wrote:
>
>> Thank you for clearing up some of my misconceptions Philip.
>
> Sure! That's kinda the point of this MBZ list - to teach each
> other about computers. Oh, yeah. And Mercedes Benz too. *grin*
>
>> The problem with the program disks is not a problem if the
>> computer is running XP directly as the disk will be either
>> exchanged with the disk already in the computer or if the disk
>> in the computer is bigger then the old disk will be cloned
>> onto the new disk. That way everything will still work, or
>> should anyway.
>
> Ah! I have not tried it, but I suspect you can clone an image
> onto a virtual machine harddrive. The guest sees the harddrive
> file as a real harddrive, so unless the cloning occurs below the
> file system level, I would expect it to work. And if the
> cloning occurs below the file system level, I would expect the
> target would have to be exactly the same size as the image.
>
> But I'm speculating - 'cause I've never dealt with that
> particular situation.
>
> It should not be hard to try. VirtualBox is free and the guest
> you build on a MSWin host will work just as well on a Linux
> host. You will probably need a licensed copy of MSWin, though.
>
> -- Philip
>
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