[Wylug-discuss] Running Windows with VirtualBox

[Andrew J Cole]

Anne,

On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:53:38 -0000, Anne Wilson  
<cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I do have an XP DVD + license for a machine that
> is no longer used, so maybe I'll try to virtualise that.  As far as
> I'm concerned, I've paid for one license to run the OS on one machine
> and that's all I'll be doing.  Drivers may turn out to be a problem,
> with hardware so much newer than the system.

This (virtualisation) should be problem free with both VMware Player
and VB.

The virtual h/w maps between the generic drivers used inside the
VM to the drivers on the real os.

Andrew