William,
Depending on which computer we're talking about, I have anywhere
from 3.5 G. to 8G. of RAM installed. My question was more about
the power of the CPU. That also affects VM performance -- a lot.
In these days of i3 / i5 / i7, I'm well behind the curve with
the older, moderate dual-cores. (AMD x2 Athlons, or their Intel
contemporaries.)
After reading various comments here, I'm leaning towards this
VMware Player, rather than Virtual PC or the others. (No one
mentioned VirtualBox . . . . )
I had been a proponent of dual-boot setups, but XP seems to have
just bugged out on my main laptop. It goes off to a black screen
La-La Land at bootup. I know it's not the hardware, because the
alternate boot -- eCS -- is still working fine. So, I'm looking
at an XP "repair install", and hoping this won't lose all the
updates and security fixes etc. etc. accumulated over the last
few years. I think that is claimed to be the case (?), but I've
never tried it. The VM thing is starting to look a lot more
appealing. But, I really don't want to give up eCS. (That's the
OS/2 successor.) As far as I knew, VirtualBox was the only
virtualizer that did OS/2 . . . but I think it had to be the Host
and XP had to be the client.
Jordan
