I'll be setting up a new i7 950 or Sandy Bridge machine primarily for FSX. I want to be able to access XP and WIN7. Am I better off setting up a dual boot with the operating systems on separate physical drives or should I go with WIN 7 with XP in a virtual machine? Of the two, which is the most efficient environment for FSX?Thanks

I'll be setting up a new i7 950 or Sandy Bridge machine primarily for FSX. I want to be able to access XP and WIN7. Am I better off setting up a dual boot with the operating systems on separate physical drives or should I go with WIN 7 with XP in a virtual machine? Of the two, which is the most efficient environment for FSX?Thanks

HelloThe Windows 7 XP VM does not support hardware accelerated graphics so FSX will not run in this mode

I'll be setting up a new i7 950 or Sandy Bridge machine primarily for FSX. I want to be able to access XP and WIN7. Am I better off setting up a dual boot with the operating systems on separate physical drives or should I go with WIN 7 with XP in a virtual machine? Of the two, which is the most efficient environment for FSX?Thanks

I'm not knowledgeable about VM but I did add W7/64 to a new drive and a new FSX install with Acceleration without disturbing the XP/32 install. I didn't want to wreck XP and that FSX install while I got used to W7. W7 installed without the XP drive installed so W7 couldn't "do" anything to it.I hoped to make it a dual boot expecting a boot menu choice using W7 (I think) but ended up with two isolated installs. I have to select boot disk at bios level which is a minor inconvenience but as I gradually spend more time in Win7, this is not a major issue. The W7 install can reference my XP added mesh, scenery and addon aircraft folders (which are folders outside of FSX-XP)Not sure if it's BEST, but it does work.Loyd