Windows XP Mode in Windows 7

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How can I use the Windows XP Mode, which is free for Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate with Parallels?

 

[Guiyon]

How can I use the Windows XP Mode, which is free for Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate with Parallels?

I doubt you'd be able to as it requires hardware virtualization. Most (if not all) virtualization software packages don't support virtualization inside a virtualized environment and do not expose the required extensions.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

I doubt you'd be able to as it requires hardware virtualization. Most (if not all) virtualization software packages don't support virtualization inside a virtualized environment and do not expose the required extensions.

Actually, it doesn't anymore. Windows XP mode used to require hardware virtualization (and still performs better with it), but now no longer does.

 

[balamw]

Actually, it doesn't anymore. Windows XP mode used to require hardware virtualization (and still performs better with it), but now no longer does.

Still, running a VM within a VM sounds like a recipe for trouble.

I know VMWare had some instructions on mighating XP mode to vmware player. I wonder if you could move that to Fusion somehow...

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[Wolfpup]

I wonder how many "layers" deep you could go with virtual machine? :-D

 

[vistadude]

Don't, it'll be too slow. It's better to do a triple boot native or install windows xp within parallels.

How can I use the Windows XP Mode, which is free for Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate with Parallels?