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Originally Posted by arjaybe
Do you mean if you run XP in a VM on a 2GB machine running, say, Windows 8.1?
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Yes. For example Windows 8.1 2GB machine as the host in order to run legacy XP applications.
In general there is no inherent problem running XP applications under Windows 8.x itself, but I have had applications, for example, with dongles that prevent using the software other than in XP. Hence my need for XP on machines running later Windows versions (thankfully recently ended with those old XP only applications now being able to be replaced with new applications of similar functionality).
As an aside there is a significant advantage in running a VM on an 8.x host compared to earlier versions of Windows in that the start-up time of the 8.x OS (a matter of a few seconds) is insignificant compared to the much longer start-up times of earlier versions of Windows; so the time to get to the guest, XP say, from machine boot is now little different to running a dedicated XP machine.