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<blockquote data-quote="Neemobeer" data-source="post: 706849" data-attributes="member: 91900">In virtual machine lingo you have what is called a hypervisor.&nbsp; This is a software that tricks the OS (virutal machine) into thinking it's running straight on hardware.&nbsp; You have two types.&nbsp; Type 1 hypervisor runs directly on top of the hardware such as VMWare esx. Type 2 runs on top of a host operating system.&nbsp; When someone says host they mean the hardware and the type 1 hypervisor or the hardware and the host operating system in a type 2.&nbsp; A guest is a VM running on the system.Question 1:&nbsp; Yes you can run a 32bit VM (Windows xp) on top of a 64bit host and your 32 bit applications will work just fine.Question 2:&nbsp; Correct the VM will use up to whatever constraints you define in the VMQuestion 3: Yes and no.&nbsp; The files in the VM will be contained in a virtual hard drive file not easily extracted; however, most hyper visors have a host-to-guest, guest-to-host and bidirectional copy features in most cases it will interface with the clipboard so you can copy and paste like normal.Question 4:&nbsp; I would say yes&nbsp; Windows 10 is the newest, and also have a built-in hyper visor that works very well (Hyper-v)Question 5/6:&nbsp; No particular opinion on the motherboard, but I would get a CPU with more cores (4 core&nbsp; would be fine) than not and at least 8-16GB of RAM as you will want 8 for the host and extra for the VM(s) although XP doesn't really need much.*SIDE NOTE* I believe hyper-v is enabled by default in the newer Windows 10 builds 1703/1709.&nbsp; If it is you won't be able to run another hypervisor on the host such as Virtualbox, Parallels, Vmware player/workstation etc.If you need help setting up the hypervisor feel free to ask I help manage several large virtual clusters for work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neemobeer, post: 706849, member: 91900"] In virtual machine lingo you have what is called a hypervisor. This is a software that tricks the OS (virutal machine) into thinking it's running straight on hardware. You have two types. Type 1 hypervisor runs directly on top of the hardware such as VMWare esx. Type 2 runs on top of a host operating system. When someone says host they mean the hardware and the type 1 hypervisor or the hardware and the host operating system in a type 2. A guest is a VM running on the system. Question 1: Yes you can run a 32bit VM (Windows xp) on top of a 64bit host and your 32 bit applications will work just fine. Question 2: Correct the VM will use up to whatever constraints you define in the VM Question 3: Yes and no. The files in the VM will be contained in a virtual hard drive file not easily extracted; however, most hyper visors have a host-to-guest, guest-to-host and bidirectional copy features in most cases it will interface with the clipboard so you can copy and paste like normal. Question 4: I would say yes Windows 10 is the newest, and also have a built-in hyper visor that works very well (Hyper-v) Question 5/6: No particular opinion on the motherboard, but I would get a CPU with more cores (4 core would be fine) than not and at least 8-16GB of RAM as you will want 8 for the host and extra for the VM(s) although XP doesn't really need much. *SIDE NOTE* I believe hyper-v is enabled by default in the newer Windows 10 builds 1703/1709. If it is you won't be able to run another hypervisor on the host such as Virtualbox, Parallels, Vmware player/workstation etc. If you need help setting up the hypervisor feel free to ask I help manage several large virtual clusters for work. [/QUOTE]

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