Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >> I got burned by a similar situation. Some hardware broken down, but luckily >> I could scavenge some 'newish' hardware. I tried to install windoze 2008, XP >> and 98, only got a nasty BSOD during initial phase of installation despite >> fiddling around with BIOS settings. >>Installing a newer windoze worked, but I soon ran into compatibility issues, >>just like you. >> So, if your windoze server's hardware crash, you may have some recovery >> problem (hopefully AFTER you retired ... <grin> )
>In that case you should be able to run current Windows on new x86 (actually >x64) server and run some VM hypervisor (i.e. VirtualBox) and WindowsXP under >the VM. License should also be no problem. Thanks. We have such machines installed much later, long long after I 'burned' myself. In fact, we have now a win 2008 (64-bit) (really!) running on a VM hypervisor using for some third party software. >BTW: Old system under VirtualBox is my solution for IBM Shopz Download Manager. Interesting, my own SMP/E guys and gals are using a z/OS JCL to do such downloads. Their decision, but it is working. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
