Re: [Hampshire] VM

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Author: Philip Stubbs
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] VM
* Hugo Mills (hugo@???) wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:56:07AM +0100, Tom Sykes wrote:
> > As far as the virtualisation goes, you must have a fairly modern
> > processor to run any kind of windows under a VM. I believe wikipedia[2]
> > has a good explanation of how this stuff works.
>
>    Well, not quite true. VMWare and qemu+kqemu will both handle
> Windows quite happily with no hardware support. I suspect that
> VirtualBox will, too.


VirtualBox works quite well for me without hardware support. I only
use it to run XP on a machine with only 512 Mb or RAM and a single
core processor.

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