Running Vista in a virtual machine from XP

Hi guys

Is there anyway I can run windows Vista using a virtual machine in XP?

I would like to run vista but I don't use it all that often as I tend to use XP more and I only currently require vista to play one game (WCW Nitro, a windows 98 game that should run in XP, won't, but runs fine in Vista? (I've got XP Home SP2 so I think that may be the problem) :wtf .

Thanks in advance for any help/advice

 

You can. Just install it as you'd install any other VM. You'd need Vmware 6.x, though, to run Vista. Or alternatively you can use Virtual Box.

Although if you just need it for running that one game, why not run a Win98 VM? It'd be much lighter(~500MB, tops), compared to Vista(3 GB minimum, even with Vlite)..

 

I agree with sesshomaru. I have Windows XP SP3 as my host system on a Acer Sapire with 2Gb Ram. I then run Vista and Ubuntu in VM. Vista is tweaked to maximum performance so it runs very well. But if you want to play a Win98 game just create a W98 Virtual Machine.

 

Ah so I can do it.

Can I assume I'd need to do a fresh install or can I run the OS from a currently installed version?

I have Vista dual booting with XP so I'd prefer not to have to install anything other than the virtual machine software, plus I don't have a copy of Win98...

 

If the game requires some sort of 3D graphics, your chances of getting it to run in a virtual machine are very low. Virtualbox for example has no hardware acceleration support at all. VMWare's is experimental and limited to certain titles with mixed results.