At 12:45 PM 8/19/2012, Ronald Nutter wrote:
Drew:
Think about getting Virtualbox (www.virtualbox.org). If you can
migrate your physical hard drive to a virtual one, you can run your
XP environment almost forever. Also when you move machines in the
future, the OS wont matter, all you need to do is move the virtual
machine and you are done.
I do the same with VMware. Same idea, except I can choose between
Windows, Linux or Mac hosts. In fact, one of my VMs has done the
lot. It started life in around 2002-2003 running on real
hardware. In 2004, it was migrated to a VM on a Linux host running
VMware Workstation (the free Server version wasn't available back
then). After its host's disk died in 2007-2008, the VM was migrated
to a Windows host running VMware Player, and finally in 2010 I moved
it to the Mac running VMware Fusion, where it sits today! :)
73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL
http://vkradio.com
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