Hi,Is it possible to add WindowsXP to my HD, alongside Win7 . I read somewhere that a device called VMware would allow this. Is this accurate ? If so, what would I need to do ?Now, I am totally out of my league here,so be kind. Thanks,Jack

Hi,Is it possible to add WindowsXP to my HD, alongside Win7 . I read somewhere that a device called VMware would allow this. Is this accurate ? If so, what would I need to do ?Now, I am totally out of my league here,so be kind. Thanks,Jack

Hey Jack,VMWare is a fairly robust app used by a lot of commercial and enterprise organizations to consolidate multiple physical servers virtually into one physical 1U or 2U box in most cases. It runs within your existing operating system and allows you to virtually install additional Operating Systems within your VMWare application all within your existing OS. I use it on my XP work laptop to run a virtual Linux appliance on my laptop for customer demos so I do not have to carry a physical server around and I can show all of the functionality of our biggest appliance from within XP.It is not for dual booting which it sounds like you are trying to do though. That is much simpler although I am not sure if the order of W7 first and XP second and if that would screw up your boot configuration and you might have to play with BCDedit... Regardless, VMware is not "required" to run multiple Operating systems, in fact I have 4 versions of XP on my FS box, 32 bit for FS9 32 bit for FSX and other games 64bit for FS9 and another 64 bit for FSX and other games that are (x64 compatible) and for both the 32 bit OS's I have a /3gb and a non /3gb boot entry so when my box boots I see 6 options and no need for VMWare at all. But if I wanted to test W7 from WITHIN XP without having to go into another OS THEN I would want VMWare.A big warning though. VMWare is also VERY memory hungry... I have to run it on my work laptop with 2 gigs of memory and it is an absolute dog... Hope that helps a little bit but I am sure I created more questions than I answered...Paul

I think You are talking about VMWare Workstation, sice VMW is a huge company in virtualisation business. If You want a system inside a system (for example VPN connections, test environment, installing risky applications...) try Microsoft VirtualPC, it is for free. If You will be hungry for snapshots, virtual clusters and other advanced virtualisation techniques, then consider VMW aplications.One thing - FSX runs awfully in virtual system, do not even try this.

Thanks for the information, fellows. I needed to know that. Jack