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Originally Posted by latepaul
The problem is usable performance.
Remember a Virtualised Machine emulates all the hardware apart from the CPU which is shares with the host OS. So if your actual CPU doesn't support SSE2 then your VM won't either. So no QT5.
What you can do is emulate the whole machine, including CPU, with something like Qemu. But that will be much much slower.
And even a VM on a machine old enough to not have SSE2 is going to run like a dog unless you run a really old OS on it. But I doubt you can run the software you need on Windows 95.
Also to create a Windows VM you need the install media for Windows for generic hardware and a valid license. Many people don't have that. They have perhaps the ability to restore the PC to the version of Windows it came with and the license almost certainly is not transferable. A legal technicality perhaps but still.
Wine or dual-booting is a better solution IMO/IME.
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What you can do is run one of the various programs that will show you the Windows key that you can then use if you can get a copy of the same version of Windows on CD or DVD.
Considering you own Windows, I would say finding a torrent for the same version of Windows is not a morale issue. You could do that and have an installable Windows. So if you do want to run Linux and that Windows in a VM, you can install it as you'll have a valid key.
(IMHO) very very slow is unusable and thus a VM that has to emulate processor functions the hardware processor doesn't have is not a good idea. I would expect too slow to be of any real use.