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    Quick VirtualXP Test

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Fountainhead, May 5, 2009.

  1. Fountainhead

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    I installed the new VirtualXP on my 7100 build and gave it a quick test. There's no real documentation so I just fumbled through it. Once installed I fired up the main VirtualXP app, which launches a version of VirtualPC and ultimately loads a full Windows XP OS window. Inside that virtual machine I installed an app, in this case GOM Player. (Not that it needs to be installed in XP, I just used it for that.) After the install, I closed out the VM completely. Whether this is really how apps have to be installed in it (or if there's a better way) I don't know.,

    But after closing out the VM there is a shortcut on the Windows 7 menu for GOM Player (Virtual Windows XP). Launching that shortcut fires up GOM Player as a local app just as if it was installed regularly. The VM itself doesn't need to launch. From inside GOM Player I can browse both the "VM" drives and the host drives. Here's a screen shot of GOM running in VirtualXP Mode. I know the text is hard to read, but it's showing the virtualized app browsing the host drives just like a local app.

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    Pretty nifty really.
     
    Fountainhead, May 5, 2009
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