On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 02:31:06 PM Colin Fee via luv-talk wrote:
Then comes a time when the PC has aged/failed, we can't ge the acient OS (XP, NT) to run on modern hardware...and so on.
So I assume by vbox you mean VirtualBox? I'm not overly familiar with it (I've run it for curisoty sake but haven't looked into at depth) but your post suggests that it's more apt to be given or configured for deeper access to hardware than say VMware?
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