| Re: Windows 7? |
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| johng316 wrote on Mon, 18 January 2010 14:10 |
So far, so good! Thanks to the instructions here, I was able to reconfigure the bios to enable virtualization. 
However, it seems I have discovered a new limitation. To run Virtual XP environment, you must have at least Windows 7 Professional. Windows 7 Home Premium 64 is what I have, and Microsoft wants $89 for the upgrade fee.
So for those of you puzzling over this, keep in mind that if you have Home Premium, you'll need to upgrade to Professional (unless there is a work-around someone smarter than I am can recommend).
I'm now trying to find a less costly path.
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Its worse than you think...you also have to have a CPU that supports virtualisation, and not all do (or will).
If you're stuck without those, a simple VM using VMware or Virtual PC running any lesser version of windows or even linux will run Stars! just fine, albient the client OS may be a lot sluggish...you should be able to very drammatically strip it down tho...a lost of XP's processing overhead(services) can be removed if you never use it for the internet.
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