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ok so heres the deal i want to create a virtual machine to install a windows os on it, so that i can play some older windows games that i cant get to run on wine.. mostly early 2000's games that dont require heavy 3d cards but theres a problem.
#1 i have no idea which VM software is best and
#2 i only have a 64bit copy of windows xp so i need a VM that supports 64bit os
was gonna try virtualbox but it doesnt support 64bit xp only 32bit
Last edited by kaitlin4599; 06-24-2015 at 02:39 PM.
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What makes you think that VirtualBox doesn't support XP 64 bit guests? As far as I can tell, from a quick google, it has done so with guest additions available since at least some time in 2013.
It may require 64 virtualisation, and possibly IOMMU, enabled in BIOS to do so though.
I have used both, a while back, and didn't see much difference. Some claim VMWare is faster which I can't dispute but it wasn't my impression. May be as well to try both and see which works best for you?
The question starts with your hardware. CPU, bios and motherboard chipset has to fully support advanced vm features for best results. You can however run a vm with some very very old stuff.
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