21-01-2016, 10:14 AM
If you're using a VM then why not instal genuine XP* in a VM. I've successfully used VirtualBox to run XP under W7pro. Haven't tried printing from the XP VM yet but don't anticipate any problems. VirtualBox is dead easy to set up with its defaults. Beyond that there's a huge amount of stuff you can tweak to get the right appearance, use of resources etc.
Were you using W7 pro's own rather limited VM capabilities? Or a decent VM system such as VirtualBox or VMware?
VirtualBox and VMware are hosted hypervisors, where you have (say) W7 as host and (say) XP as guest. I've not tried using a bare metal hypervisor where there is no host OS. These look rather more complicated, more appropriate to enterprise solutions.
*To be strictly legal you need an XP licence to do this.
Were you using W7 pro's own rather limited VM capabilities? Or a decent VM system such as VirtualBox or VMware?
VirtualBox and VMware are hosted hypervisors, where you have (say) W7 as host and (say) XP as guest. I've not tried using a bare metal hypervisor where there is no host OS. These look rather more complicated, more appropriate to enterprise solutions.
*To be strictly legal you need an XP licence to do this.
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