I've been using, as my main machine, a box with Windows 7 on it and a Virtual Machine from Microsoft called XP Mode.
A lot of stuff that I like to use wasn't functioning or available for Win7 so this arrangement allows me to bounce back and forth from operating system to operating but yet access the same files.
However, MS is pushing, pushing, pushing, Windows 10. And I have researched how to set up an XP Virtual Machine within it.
My other option is two machines networked with the font files kept on a networked directory and accessible to both machines. But that seems like the long way around.
(I guess my next move is to buy a Win 10 machine and experiment but I'd love to know what others have done. I do have a large screen Mac but for various reasons I'd rather not run an XP VM on that.)
Has anybody on this forum faced this problem? Any advice to offer?
Comments
If license is an issue, wine in a Linux vm might be a choice (and a strange perverse one).
This reminds me that a long time ago, Microsoft did not support windows remote display client on the win98 family. (nt/2000 only). My solution to accessing windows remote display was running rdesktop inside X11 inside cygwin on win98.
Perhaps an option is to make a bit-for-bit copy of your Win 7 disk, to make your system dual boot, and to update the clone to Win 10? Then you have it all on one machine.
F.
Thanks, fellows. Food for thought. James, I've done the virtual Windows machine thing on Mac and it just didn't please me. My Mac screen is 23" and I'm just plain more comfortable working in Windows most of the time on a smaller screen and just spinning my chair when I need to work at the Mac. There are instructions for running a virtual machine in Windows 10 posted online. I'm just going to buy a Windows 10 box - which I'll sooner or later have to spend on anyway - and try to set it up. Let you guys know how it works out.
Good tips with the last one really great.
Thanks, Mr. Crossland!