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palcal

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Posted: 11:41pm 02 May 2025
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I have an old app from about 2006, it is a Jukebox that I run in a Jukebox I built many years ago. The Jukebox won't boot anymore so I have another computer which I am going to strip down to fit in. I figured this Jukebox app would probably run better on an old OS so am going to run Win XP in a VM. Is Oracle Virtualbox the way to go ? Never used a VM before.
"It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all"
 
robert.rozee
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Posted: 12:06am 03 May 2025
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i use virtual box and find it works well, running it under Linux Mint XFCE.


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rob   :-)
 
tgerbic
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Posted: 01:21am 03 May 2025
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I have used a few and VirtualBox is the best in my opinion.  I have almost a dozen VMs for various situations from DOS 3.1 to Win10, Ubuntu and Kali. All work great.
 
palcal

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Posted: 03:01am 03 May 2025
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Thanks.
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Grogster

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Posted: 06:54am 04 May 2025
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VirtualBox is the one I always use in Linux, when I am playing with a Windoze VM.
It's pretty advanced software, at this stage.

VM's gobble RAM though, so make sure you have plenty - 8GB MINIMUM, preferably 16GB.
Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops!
 
atmega8

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Posted: 07:15am 04 May 2025
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VMware Workstation is free now.
For Linux, Windows and MacOS.
 
Plasmamac

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Posted: 09:18am 04 May 2025
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vmware here
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