Will XP Mode be supported?

[Shaun]

The www.vmlite.com site appears to have gone away. Is anyone able to get to the site? I'm just wondering if they moved it and I'm having DNS caching issues?

[stefan.becker]

Try vmlite.org

I think its not more than VBOX OSE. Checked one hour before on Windows 7.

[Shaun]

Looks like they just dropped the .com site. Thanks.

[Technologov]

VMlite XP VM is different than XP mode.

MS XP mode hides totally the underlying Windows XP. VMlite does not.

[CJ]

VMlite is different, it is not XP mode

VMLite is a commercial fork of VirtualBox. It can run XP Mode. Note that XP Mode != simply running the XP VHD, but the running of virtualized apps fully integrated on the host desktop.

Microsoft's solution for this is to use MS's RDP/RemoteApp technology -- which allows running a Windows app remotely. The XP Mode VHD you download from MS is pre-configured to act as an RDP host, which serves apps out to the RDP client which is the host desktop.

As mentioned earlier, VB already supports RDP, so it should theoretically be possible to get XP Mode working under VB.

Nathanael

[McStarfighter]

This discussion seems to be running the XP Mode in a VM...

I think it would be good enough, if VirtualBox will be able to get this kind of seamless mode and integration with a self-installed Windows VM. And not to "force" the way of using the preconfigurated XP Mode VM ...