I did more research I and I heard some rumblings about windows 7's "Windows XP Mode". it turns out it's a Windows Virtual PC that emulates XP yet provides access to your devices. I don't know what kind of filesystem access it provides. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/faq.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/ and, it's 32-bit always. so I think i'm covered if I get a 64-bit 7 box.
the only issues left are the filesystem virtual store. if anything ever touches c:\program files\ and it doesn't have a manifest, or something is trying to write data there, the app gets shuffled off to the virtual store area. this has been happening since vista. what I don't know is, will xp mode share filesystems with windows 7? that is VERY important. I need to be able to share data in at least SOME way. does anybody know whether it can do this? best case: share NTFS next best case: share FAT32 worst case: burn a cd. (sneakernet) very wasteful. ________________________________ From: Bernd Blaauw <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, May 13, 2010 10:40:41 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7 Op 13-5-2010 19:25, Jim Michaels schreef: > >can >you point me to an emulator that has windows binaries that can be used >by a business person for more than personal use > Let's see ( I don't know the licenses of all): * VMware (Workstation, Server, Player, etc) * Bochs * QEMu * VirtualBox * VirtualPC. As you wrote already, some have limitations based on license. I guess Bochs would do fine anyway. QEMU I don't know if you can use that, there different versions.
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