Virtual Computer questions!

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The other day I tried to play some very old games networked. Obviously windows 7 doesnt use ipx and you cant get hold of it, whereas vista had a 3rd party ipx addon you could get hold of...
Basically the only way I can think of netowrking very old games is to run a virtual machine on both computers, but I've never done this before. So I was hoping some people could answer a few questions for me!

1. What is good software to do this
2. I assume the virtual interface can go full screen?
3. Would networking actually work?
4. Does it use all the same hardware as your machine has in its native OS and how on earth can both access them!
5. How do you set one up?

Any help would be appreciated please, as well as alternative suggestions to solve the problem. I would rather not dual boot because that takes too long and has complications with boot orders!
 
1.VMWare or Virtual PC, both free
2. Yes to both
3. Yes(ish) - as long as you don't want to do it over VPN or anything
4. Not by default, it uses some very basic hardware. You can install drivers though
5. Virtual PC is just install and go (literally), VMWare is a bit harder. You're better off trawling the web for help on VMWare.
 
Sweet. Not too fussed about the hardware side considering the machine I will create will only be for playing very old games, and anything over 100mhz will be wasted lol.
Will def look in to those 2 options, thank you!
As for networking, I am happy to use either my local network or hamachi. Not sure how they would fare within a virtual environment tbh! Anyone out there whos done that before?
 
oxygene said:
Sweet. Not too fussed about the hardware side considering the machine I will create will only be for playing very old games, and anything over 100mhz will be wasted lol.
Will def look in to those 2 options, thank you!
As for networking, I am happy to use either my local network or hamachi. Not sure how they would fare within a virtual environment tbh! Anyone out there whos done that before?
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I have a virtual XP machine that I use to vpn into work with and that works flawlessly using VirtualBox (another level 2 hypervisor similar to VMware server or VitualPC) on my linux desktop. I see no reason why it won't work for playing old games on, as the guest machine will be the one handling the network protocols.
 
Well I tried virtualbox but it froze whenever the boot up screen tried to use the mouse. then I tried vmware and it does everything fine. Sound video everything, cept wehen going full screen in a game it doesnt stretch it, just sticks it in the middle. Theres prolly a setting for that somewhere
 
Gah after all this I set up both games fine then found out the IPX protocal isnt in the network adapter options. Its an xp boot so it should be there and I cant find it anywhere online to download lol.
 
well i don't know then. :p

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If you want to play games, Dosbox might be a better idea as it does support IPX through TCP/UDP afaik and will give you the best performance possible for old games without building some vintage setup.
 
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I use dosbox to run then, in win7 and in the virtual environment. But they never see each other unless ipx is installed on the host machine. Is there some other way to get ipx within dosbox to work that isnt automatically set up?

*goes to read the readme a few more times*
 
Ok Think I found it, lots of info there I never looked at lol! Thnx for the pointer, looks like virtual machines were a waste of my time :p
 
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