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- Floyd, VA USA
- OS
- Fedora 41 Rawhide Garuda and Windows Canary (this is on the edge)
I'mXP machine works fairly easily if you use VMWare's free vmplayer on Windows. Note though only USB2 support, and probably IDE only - although there might be some SATA drivers. You'll need the VM's "paravirtualised video drivers" too if you want to do better than 640 X 480 VGA. The high res video screens weren't even in the realms of Science fiction back in those days.
XP with Lunar black theme and able to use networked drives :
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If you do want an XP VM then get the "Service pack 3" or the "Unofficial service pack 4" - there's still quite a few hobbyists around who are running and even trying to maintain XP !!!
As others have said HYPER-V runs a load of VM's nicely - but I'd leave XP off its list. For Wifi on XP - either use a separate usb->wifi adapter and install the driver itself in the VM or use from Vmware "Bridged Networking" with the paravirtualised nic -- this emulates an ethernet nic regardless of the hardware and should work.
XP as a VM runs very fast on modern gear !!!.
Cheers
jimbo
trying to install Manjaro KDE on Hyper-V using a CD-ROM. Not going well - next, I will use VMware e.x.; I am
sure it will work great.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Fedora 41 Rawhide Garuda and Windows Canary (this is on the edge)
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- HomeBrew
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processo
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte
- Memory
- 32GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell
- Hard Drives
- 4 2 in Linuz raid0
- Keyboard
- Eluktronics
- Mouse
- Eluktronics
- Browser
- Firefox and Chromium
- Other Info
- Gnome 45