On 3 May 2016 at 19:16, Mike Whalen <[email protected]> wrote: > Something I didn’t say explicitly that has caused some confusion is the > following: > > We are an ESX 5.5 environment. None of our servers are physical, save for > the ESX server. Also, when I said “bare-metal” earlier, what I really meant > was that the remote site runs ESX and will bring up our VMs.
Aww jeez. So when you said "bare metal" you actually meant "NOT bare metal"? > So, when I say that I may need to spool up a VM to run this software, I > really mean another VM inside ESX. A separate VM on the host machine with XP and the app should be entirely doable. I strongly suggest enabling the ePosReady 2009 security tweak, though: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/26/german_tinkerer_gets_around_xpocalypse/ Getting an XPMode VM into it will be tricky, though. A reinstall might be necessary. > Or I may put Virtual Box w/ XP or Windows 98 on the 2012 VM. That would be significantly inefficient and I would not recommend it myself. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)
