Duel Boot

almillar

You don't save XP to the Virtual Box - it's, well, a Virtual Box - a virtual, blank, empty PC. You need to install XP onto it. Then you can install Flight Sim 98 onto that Windows. This will all happen in a Virtual Hard drive file on your real hard drive, and will work better than trying to install XP on your modern, real hardware as above. I guess a 10GB virtual hard drive will be fine. See what the RAM requirements of Flight Sim 98 are, and set the VirtualBox a good bit above that. Don't bother with giving this Virtual Box any more than 1 CPU core either.

DoaM

Per the thread title, what's "duel boot"? Is it where two operating systems fight against each other?

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DoaM wrote: »

Per the thread title, what's "duel boot"? Is it where two operating systems fight against each other?

I was wondering the same thing but with two guys with a welly, each taking swings, hence the term 'give it some welly' :rotfl:

aardvaak

esuhl wrote: »

Yeah... What's the model of your laptop, aardvark?





XP runs incredibly fast in a virtual machine... But I find that a lot of games and graphics-intensive programs don't run (or run badly). I suspect there might be problems running a flight sim in a VM, but it's worth a try.

HP Pavilion G6 Notebook PC
Intel Pentium Processor2.4Htz
6GB Ram
64 Bit Operationg System

aardvaak

Frozen_up_north wrote: »

A much easier (and safer) solution to running legacy software, is to install Virtual Box (https://www.virtualbox.org/), then install your other system inside the V/B. Virtual Box (and, if needed, the extension pack) is free and well supported.

I run 32 bit Windows XP on a 64 bit Windows PC, including serial port and printers in a virtual box. The XP installation can be isolated from the network and therefore doesn’t need anti-virus or updates, it runs like greased lightning.

When I click on your link for VB how do I start the download is it at "Windoew Hosts"?

Frozen_up_north

aardvaak wrote: »

When I click on your link for VB how do I start the download is it at "Windoew Hosts"?

Yes, the host in your case is Windows.

esuhl

aardvaak wrote: »

HP Pavilion G6 Notebook PC

Is there anything written after the G6? Maybe on a label or in system properties? The full model name will be something like G6-2204sa or G6-1c60ca or something like that.

HP have XP drivers for some G6 models on their FTP site (but not on the website).

aardvaak wrote: »

When I click on your link for VB how do I start the download is it at "Windoew Hosts"?

Yep. The "host" is the physical machine. The "guest" is the virtual machine that runs inside the host.

Neil_Jones

The G6 comes in literally thousands of versions. The full model number should be either on the bottom of the unit or typically under the battery.