Are there any issues with MSI GT75 orGE7 using VM?

I want to purchase one of the two and need to be able to work with VM on older Windows OS for business reasons. Has anyone come across any issues with VMWare or other virtual programs and either of these two machines?

What about dual boot into WinXP?

 

You shouldn't have any issues running VMware Workstation or Oracle VirtualBox.

 

Vitual machines should be no problem, but dual booting winxp is most likely a no go or a nightmare. I don't think drivers for XP for the controllers in the mobo, the cpu, nvme exists and you would be working with an unstable/slow forced installation unless you use a SATA HDD for it. Of course you would be very limited by the RAM limits, so you would have to force/use the igpu to avoid problems because dGPUs have now so much video ram.

It's best to use it virtualized.

 

That is true. No drivers for XP exists. While mainstream XP is a 32 bit OS, its driver model is still designed to be compatible with ancient hardware made before XP even came out, despite real mode (MS DOS) drivers not working in XP (you need real win32 drivers, unlike Win 9X, which worked with both). And XP 64 wasn't very popular as there weren't many 64 bit drivers even available at the time, since people were still using win32 programs, so everyone used the 32 bit version of XP, which was limited to 4 GB of RAM (max 1.9 GB for any application). A few high end motherboards have a legacy jumper which enables compatibility with XP's driver model, and include drivers that will work on XP (this isn't for general "use" but rather for benchmarks and games which work better on XP than windows 7+), but on laptops, good liuck.

 

Thanks a lot. I will just VM the other OSs.