i want to start the windows xp mode under windows 7 and it says i have no hardware based virtualization?
Thursday, May 13th, 2010 at
8:24 am
what does that mean? i just bought windows 7 ulitimate recently for my laptop and when i whant to use windows xp mode it says the system offers not hardware based virtualization?? what can i do about it, what do i need and what am i missing?? plz help
i cant even run it slow… i cant run it at all…
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Nothing you can do about it – you would have to upgrade the processor in your system to get that.
It means your CPU is going to be working a bit harder at pretending to be a "fake" PC running within your "real" PC. It’ll be slower, probably along the lines of only 3/4 as fast as XP would be running directly on the hardware. (The fake PC just has to intercept and redirect calls to devices, not translate CPU instruction sets, like emulating an x86 on a PowerPC would require.)
Edit: Seems according to the answer after mine, Microsoft’s software isn’t nearly as capable as VirtualBox, which is free and doesn’t REQUIRE hardware acceleration. Seems not all frees are created equal. Sorry for the mistake. I couldn’t find the system requirements on Microsoft’s website.