![]() It’s still connected to your network and to the internet. XP, or any operating system you might run in a virtual machine doesn’t really benefit from being in a virtual machine in any significant way when it comes to security. Is it as risky as running XP natively? Well, yes and no, but mostly yes.Ī virtual machine is best thought of as a completely separate machine. So, what that means is that running XP in a virtual machine isn’t technically any less risky. (XP mode is really just a virtual machine.) It is in fact, one of the common recommendations for folks that have software such as you do, that can’t be run on anything after Windows XP, to use a virtual machine to be able to run Windows XP and that special software. I’m glad you asked, because I’m afraid that a number of people might be making some dangerous assumption about virtual machines and XP mode. Once you get a Windows XP virtual machine running within Windows 8, you should be able to run pretty much everything that you used to in Windows XP.This is a really good question. All you’re really looking for here is virtual machine software. If I had more RAM in my machine, I could run multiple virtual machines at the same time. I can run two or even three, but it’s easy for things to bog down if I do anything else as the operating system in total runs out of or low on memory. I’m running Windows 8, 64 bit, and if I’m doing much of anything else I really have to limit myself to running only one virtual machine at a time. In my case, my desktop is limited to only 8 GB of RAM. ![]() If your machine is already tight on memory, you may not have enough RAM to run a virtual machine. Oracle’s Virtual Box takes just a little more work. XP mode in Windows 7 was simple to download, install, and run. For Windows XP, that means you’ll need the actual installation CD and a product key to activate the operating system once installed. You’ll need the original installation media. Remember, this is like installing Windows on a completely empty machine. Install that and you will be able to create virtual machines for almost any operating system that runs on a PC. To do this, get a copy of Virtual Box from Oracle. ![]() In the past, I’ve run Ubuntu Linux and tried out a couple of other Linux flavors. I regularly run Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and even another copy of Windows 8. On my Windows 8 desktop machine, I have several virtual machines available to me. “XP mode” isn’t available for Windows 8, but you can do almost the same thing with any operating system (not just XP) in Windows 8 by using virtual machine software. Your machine was still running Windows 7, and you were also running Windows XP, in a window. If you fired up the XP mode window, it ran a fully functional copy of Windows XP and you could open your DOS games and do anything else you wanted to within it. XP mode in Windows 7 was nothing more than a pre-configured virtual machine that ran Windows XP. Sure, XP mode isn’t available on Windows 8, but you can do something almost exactly like it. The problems that you’re experiencing could be happening for any number of reasons, but I suspect that those games are just fundamentally incompatible with Windows 8 and 64 bits.
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