On 05/14/2014 06:41 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 8:19 AM, fedora <fedora@ayni.com mailto:fedora@ayni.com> wrote:
Ever considered to install W XP as a VM on linux? I was successful with both of them (XP and 7) installed on VirtualBox in Linux.This sounds like the best solution.
I asked and found that XP will still have the same vulnerability on a VM as if it were installed to its own partition. I came to the conclusion that if a given machine simply cannot run Win 7 because it's too slow, that it would be necessary to obtain a better machine, OR only use XP with no internet connection. This is possible if you dual boot with a Linux system. You can access the 'net via Linux, and transfer any needed download to XP from the Linux partition. A bit clumsy, but virus-free. (I don't actually know how to make sure that nothing can get thru the ethernet port to XP. I don't believe it's possible to remove Internet Explorer, and I don't know if it's still vulnerable if you never access it.) Of course, the other answer is not to have an ethernet connection at all, and to move all files to XP via USB sneakernet.
--doug