"Anwar Mahmood" <amahmood5@uclan.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> We're using Windows XP at the moment, but have Windows Vista as well.
> We use Windows Deployment Services (WDS) to image PCs across the
> network.
>
> We've not got everything working on Windows Vista yet, some people
> would like to use it, yet still be able to access applications that
> are currently only available on Windows XP.
>
> Originally, we used Virtual PC 2007 on Windows Vista, and ran Windows
> XP virtually. Worked fine, but
> - XP running virtually is slow
> - some of our PCs have only 512Mb RAM, so dual booting isn't always
> an option




First off...when using a virtual machine...
there will always be a performance hit on the guest OS.

Since 512 megs is no where near enough to even run Vista
it's hard to believe XP would even run at all in a virtual machine.

Unless you can increase the RAM (I'd say to 2 gigs)

Dual booting is your only option...
(unless you just want to skip Vista entirely)