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VM ware player ?

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the snake

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can i take an image of an old XP64 install that i had and run it in windows 7pro as a virtual machine ?

i still have XPpro installed on an old HDD that is unplugged right now and i have an image i made of it in acronis true image,

or would i need to purchase something else to do this ?

VM n00b here LOL

this is on the PC in my signature below
 
I don't know about Win7's XP virtualization, but I use VMware player 3.11. I initially converted my old P4's WD Raptor HDD XP32 installation backup with VMWare's converter, then ran it on Player. Since this was on my old Athlon II X4 system I had to reactivate Windows, but it successfully converted a .TIB backup otherwise. I had no problems.

Since then, I just used Player to install a fresh copy of XP and all of my XP era apps, like office2003 and VisualStudio .NET 2003 etc, on my new Sandy Bridge system. You have to make sure you don't change the amount of ram or XP's hardware polling will detect system changes and prompt for a reactivation. If the XP64 installation you have is from the same system config then you may not have to, but you won't be able to use 8GB of ram. VMware player is free, but I forget exactly what the limitations are. For example, it now supports 64 bit operating systems, but you may not be able to use more that 4GB of RAM in the virtual machine.

I think it's awesome, and it's also the best way to try a new linux distro. It's great for XP, but as long as you don't expect to play your old games on it you'll be fine. I've not had a problem with any hardware issues, and you can mount ISOs for use as your optical drive with XP as well. This was handy for me since I made .ISO backups of all my old program disks, so I never actually had to use a single CD/DVD to do a fresh install of my old XP system. That would have been 20 CD and DVDs to swap out. A small but nice touch.
 
thanks for all the info, i got it to work, i set the xp64 VM to 2GB of ram instead of the 8 it had, had to activate, but no big deal.
 
Awesome.

Glad it worked out for you. I tried running my VM off of both a HDD and a pair of X25-V 40GBs in raid 0 (the Xp32 VM I'm using is only 9GB, no swap file). I didn't really notice a huge difference in performance. It seems as though there's a bottle neck somewhere, but at the same time it doesn't really tax my host system at all.

BTW, I think an XP license can be reactivated every 6 months.
 
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