[nmglug] running legacy OS

[Brendan]

Andres Paglayan wrote:
> because of a silly reason I will need to run an instance of a legacy OS 
> (Windows) under my Ubuntu laptop every now and then for few days. More 
> precisely Windows XP,
> 
> Today there's more virtual hosts options than before,
> 
> I wonder if there's any more/less recommended virtualization tool for 
> Ubuntu,
> 
> Any good or bad experiences?

The future of virtualization is currently KVM via libvirt for Linux in 
general.  You'll want a modern CPU with hardware virtualization support- 
that means "vmx" showing up in /proc/cpuinfo on an Intel system (Not 
sure what the AMD equivalent is).  The only problem I'm aware of with XP 
is that it may notice the "hardware change" and probably want a new 
activation key.

-Brendan