<p>I was able to get a vanilla xp sp1 image to work in virtualbox for a specific application. </p>
<p>To image a current machine state, Google "converting physical machine to virtual" using the free VMware tool to create the VMDK, then import into the free Virtualbox or use your favorite manager xen/qemu/VMware/virtualPC To manage the images. Then you can play your favorite application in its appropriate is and have instant snapshots if you hose the image.</p>
<p>Or the horrors of reinstalling Windows plus all of your applications one weekend twice a year.<br></p>
<p>As it doesn't work on Windows7, 8. It also doesn't run well in Wine<br>
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It is a mission critical legacy application. Management wanted the latest and greatest.</p>
<p>So I had to run them parallel for three months until FY end.</p>
<p>It took a week to get the legacy data loaded into the new version</p>
<p>But now it seems to work well.<br>
And I can finally get rid of a physical XP box.</p>
<p>Your mileage may vary.<br>
Watch out for whammies.</p>
<p>Justin.</p>
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Justin W Elam<br>
E-mail ::: <a href="mailto:justin.w.elam@gmail.com">justin.w.elam@gmail.com</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 11, 2013 9:34 AM, "Pete Hardie" <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I have a PC running XP exclusively to run WiRNS, a replacement ReplayTV guide provider. I'd like to switch it over to run as a VM on my Linux box, but I don't have a full XP install disk for it. Is there a way to image the current real install and turn it into an .iso that I can use under a VM?<br>
<br clear="all"></div><div>Pete Hardie<br>--------<br>Better Living Through Bitmaps</div>
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