Charles like VMWare. I liked VirtualBox, but now it's "Oracle VirtualBox" which gives me pause.
Which VM Engine are you using and why? What are advantages? Disadvantages? Good features? Reasons to avoid? I have a 12-year-old WinXP SP3 box I turn on a couple times a month to do accounting. I should probably just use a paper journal, since there are typically less than a dozen checks, invoices and payments in a month. But I thought it might be a good exercise to see how feasible it would be to virtualize an existing physical install and see if I could get it running on a new box. I found a Tech Republic article the describes how to move it to Virtual PC: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/convert-windows-xp-into-a-windows-7-virtual-machine-with-disk2vhd/ and I'm giving that a try... -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4s1mk+_zarj6vdertsv8rz__7uqrevfvoa9y4ofhu1...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
