Virtualization

[tential]

So most of you probably read the article and understood it completely but I read it and found it very hard. Thus this probably might not belong in highly technical but virtualization has always been a complete mystery to me(why you need it etc.).

Anyway, I have a program that I would like to "virtualize" in vista 64bit. It only works on XP though but if I used a virtualization program I could get it to run on vista I figure but not have to have xp running in a small window or something like that.

I am pretty sure this is possible but I know I would need ya'lls help to be able to steer me in the right direction.

 

[CalvinHobbes]

If you installed something like VMware on your Vista machine, you would then be able to install a guest OS (in this case XP) and the software you wanted to run would run like it normally does on XP. I'm not sure how things like games would work in a virtual machine but everything else works fine.

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: tential
I could get it to run on vista I figure but not have to have xp running in a small window or something like that.

Take a look at :
http://www.virtualbox.org

Are you asking for the ability to run a program like it is in another OS but without having that OS running on the pc ? Sort of like the capability of a virtual machine without actually running a whole virtual machine, but just for that program ?

That is going to be the hard part.

That actually would be more like a translator than a virtual os.
Something like the Wine program does for linux.

It is probably doable , but I don't know of anything out there right now for xp under vista, other than what MS provides with Vista.

 

[tential]

Ya I mean I wouldn't mind running a virtual machine that did XP but if I could just do it in vista that would be amazing. But if I used VMware on Vista and installed XP as a guest OS then what would happen? Would XP run in its only little window or how does it work? I only need to do this for very unintensive work.

 

[Cheex]

You can run it in a window or fullscreen. When it is run in fullscreen, you might even forget that it is only 'virtual'.