With VMWare player you could run your XP across dual monitors. I use it like that on a Windows 7 host and it works beautifully.
Cheers Dave On 7 April 2011 16:23, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > OK! ... too much choice, leaving me more confused. > > > > I thought VirtualBox had to be installed as the native OS, but it looks > like it runs under Windows and then I can run more Windows inside it (is > that right?) However, I do feel a bit nervous about a product with which I’m > unfamiliar and I’ve heard no discussion about it amongst people I know. I > know someone who has Linux as the native OS and running Windows inside it > using VirtualBox, but I don’t know how difficult it was to setup and to > maintain. > > > > I see that XP Mode is simply a pre-configured XP SP3 running under Windows > Virtual PC. > > > > What about VMWare Player? I’m using this on an older test box and it seems > to run Win7 inside Vista acceptably. > > > > One thing I forgot to mention is that it would be nice if the virtual XP > could use two monitors, but perhaps that’s asking too much at the moment. > > > > Greg >
