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        <title><![CDATA[please follow-up]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Please let me know if you can get ANYHING to run in a virtual XP window - especially games, especially old ones! I am a complete Doubting- Thomas on this one - I say you will not be able to run 99% of anything old in the window - no drivers, no support. BUT - I'd love to be wrong. My experience was that nothing ran.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:28:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Move your Windows XP installation into Windows 7 with VMware]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have been running a Virtual Box version of Windows XP on my Windows 7 Pro installation since it came out. It was an excellent way to continue to use our older software that was not updated for 7. The surprise came after we switched over to Windows 7 and I discovered that some of the newer software would not run on it either. Software such as Adobe Illustrator CS3 will not be updated for Windows 7 and Adobe thinks we should all pay hundreds of dollars to have this program run on Windows 7. Not a very customer friendly relations program from Adobe, but most other companies offer little more in the way of service these days.Anyway this approach has saved my company a lot of money on software upgrades that we did not have to make. Now eventually we will have to upgrade as Microsoft will stop releasing security updates to XP at some point and it will become too un-secure to use.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[azieser]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:27:26 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Move your Windows XP installation into Windows 7 with VMware]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can I use the VMWare Player in an installation of Windows 7 which is already a virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[don_neal@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:46:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Information...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I am currently taking the hyper v courses for MS virtualization, and have not studied all the VMWare stuff.That being said, I have not seen anything about using a VM of the WES stuff.  I am not sure you typically would, since there is a WES emulator, and you would not need a VM instance (or it would be a resource drain) considering the footprint of the WES emulator?What would you be attempting to run the WES VM for on the desktop?  Will the emulator work for you instead?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[QAonCall]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:06:30 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Move your Windows XP installation into Windows 7 with VMware]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thanks for pointing out that Windows XP (and vista) can run with Windows 7 on the same system without dual-booting?an important tip! Do you know if this process is the same for moving your Windows XP installation into Windows Embedded 7 Standard? WES 7 is a modularized version of Windows 7 so I?m wondering if the transfer process would be the same.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[TuneUp Utilities]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:16:33 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A couple of notes..]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Win7 has the ability to assign to a single or multiple applications the designation of 'XP mode'.  So 'technically' moving them would not be necessary.  They can be installed and designed to run in XP mode.  This eliminates some of the issues described.  It works pretty good from all the stuff I have checked.As for combining the hard drives this can be accomplished as noted.The issue would be that if you run the VM just for the 'older' apps, this requires additional storage, memory and hard drive space.  on top of that, you still have 2 big issues (if those were not enough).  Maintenance of a standing XP system, and of course the looming retirement.Win7 is more secure, especially in 64 bit edition, and the performance gains are completely worth it for the other non-XP reliant applications.sorry for the delay in response, I was out of town.Good luck]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[QAonCall]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:32:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To Clarify..]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sorry for the delay, I was in Vegas.My original post did not include (after reading your post) that I host my VM's using VPC from ms.That was more my point, rather than using the third party application (vmware).With VPC, and the ability to use XP mode the user has a very stable and secure platform, that can host as much hardware as necessary to accomplish pretty much anything you need.I also did not reply to the memory management piece, but I see someone linked to MS about this.Thanks...sorry for the delay.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[QAonCall]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:20:35 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[you sure can!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You can definitely image both your C: and D: partitions from your single physical disk onto a single virtual disk.How I accomplished this was with the following:- Made a disk image of my C: and D: drives to a USB External Drive. - On my new PC installed vmware server for windows(Free), and vmware Converter (Free).- Created a new Virtual Machine with vmware server - made my disk the same (empty) size as my entire physical disk from my old PC.- I made a boot image iso and mounted it to the Virtual Machine as it's CDROM disc. - I booted the Virtual Machine with the boot iso image, then wrote the disk image to the empty virtual disk. - BEFORE BOOTING your virtual machine for the 2nd time and after completing the imaging,  you must run vmware converter on the virtual machine. - In vmware converter I selected the option to import an 'unknown' virtual machine version to a specific version (vmware server for windows). - vmware converter took the original disk image contents that is now stored on the virtual disk and converted them to a compatible virtual machine with drivers. - you can then boot the new virtual machine with all partitions intact and the entire XP installation as it was on the old PC.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Shane Grant]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:34:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Not sure...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[... as I have not tried that configuration. Anyone out there have experience with this type of setup?I suppose that you could just try it and see what happens.Of course, you need to make a backup or image so that you can return to normal should it not work.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Shultz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:34:04 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[running  Older Programs]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[My XP setup is that my system resides on one partition including the necessary programs and another partition which have my other programs but i one disk. is it possible to image the whole disk with drives C: &amp; D:? what shall i do so i can run my other programs.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:41:30 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What Fun!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have just finished installing my XP Pro program, with all of my software, into a virtual machine on my Win 7 machine. And I must say that it is a no brainer when you follow the instructions that Greg Shultz listed. I have some old software games, dating back to Win 95 that I hope to resurrect and being able to do it from my Win 7 computer by simply clicking on to the VMware icon is really great. I'm sure I'll probably find hitches in the process, but its great to be able to follow the the new technology, even if I'll always be a long ways behind.Thank you, Mr. Shultz!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:03:56 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[x86 and x64 on the same PC]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Within any x64 OS (Host) you should be able to run its cousin x86 OS's (Guests).Within an x86 Host you can run any x86 version of OS as long as they are supported (look through the documentation of VMplayer which you can download from the website.) Running x64 version Guests on a x86 Host is a no-no far as I know.The best Host for VMware software is x64 as it will support 3.x Gb RAM and more. The x86 host is limited by the x86 OS.PSIf you want to test the  bare-metal hypervisor ESX(i) 4.0 you can do so within VMplayer 3.x or VMworkstation 7.x if the PC is EMT64/AMD64 ready.Basically you could run virtual servers running on a virtualized ESX hypervisor with vCenter within VMplayer. Ofcourse you might want to have a bulkier machine for testing of this kind. 6GB or more is then a must imho. However I would use VMworkstation 7.x as it also includes additional options of teams etc.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuff_For_Reflection]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:07:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Failure to start converted PC in VMware]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can you tell em what it is you see during the failure?The info you write here is little to work with..If you really want good advice/answers I would recommend posting the issue you have on the forums of VMware itself. I have seen some capable people there.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuff_For_Reflection]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:40:39 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Using Partition software within a VM]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If you run Partition magic in the VM you will not see any other disk then the virtual disk itself. (Unless you get creative that is and you add a HDD as a raw disk then yes.)Within VMware ESX(i) this is called adding an RDM. On a setup as yours I would not use it as you might break the partition of windows 7 itself in which the .vdk resides which is in effect you virtual WXP disk using by the VMplayer.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuff_For_Reflection]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:30:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I haven't...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...tried installing a virtual 64-bit OS on a 32-bit host before, but I would imagine that it is possible... The two should essentially be independent of one another, other than the fact that the 64-bit virtual will require that the hardware on the host system matches the system requirements.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Shultz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:34:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thanx Much, only one part]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...that I am not sure of.  There is the issue of the unallocated space at the front of the HDD that was XP.  Do you think I could fire up Partition Magic 8 in XP under VMWare and do the partition work all the while under Win7.  I think probably so.  And thanx for your direction.  You have been very helpful.  Ric]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[TitusHooker]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:04:12 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[no it's a curse]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have volumes of stories of pc-related problems that only I experience. My friends are astounded every time when I tell them what's happened lately; this goes back to C-64 days. Things only happen to me. I must have cursed too loudly one day, pissed off some computer-god somewhere and have suffered ever since. The most recent mystery that no one could solve (and don't bother trying, I've heard them all)was SP3 update creating false passwords for login accounts, where they never existed previously and fotally locking me out of the system. Nothing could reveal them, nothing could correct them, except a total fresh re-install. Never a dull moment around here. Thanks for replying.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[deICERAY]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:49:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Anyone who can answer this question?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is it possible to do the opposite, e.g. run Windows 7 virtually on a system running Windows Vista 32? That would be great for trying out Windows 7. Do I have to respect 32 and 64 bit versions of both operating systems or can I run virtually a 64 bit OS on a &quot;real&quot; 32 bit OS? Thanks.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[bert@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:42:40 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Problem with 4 core processor (Intel Xeon)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hi,I tried this converter with success before, but on my work computer, which has this cpu: Intel Xeon CPU 5140 @2.33GHz (it has 4 cores)I cannot start the image after the convert. It fails during startup.I suspect that it is because of the cpu. Anyone who has experienced this? Or succesfully converted a similar?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jma73@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:51:45 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Missleading title]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is a very good idea, but this is not moving XP ... this is KEEPING XP (in a vm) so ... same XP, same security problem an it will run slower since is a guest on Windows 7 host.Still the idea is good.Adrian.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[amuscan]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:37:22 -0700</pubDate>
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