and keep it fully licensed. Then you get the rock-solid hardware emulation of a very mature Wintel hypervisor from the pioneers in the field, plus you are using a fully-licensed legit version of XP, straight (or nearly so) from Microsoft.
Mind you, Virtualbox would be less expensive if it does the job, but I cannot speak to it from first-hand experience.
I'm just saying that Workstation 7.0x claims full compatibility with Win7 pro 64-bit (which is what I'm running), and it has a dedicated menu option, under the "File" heading, that states "Import Windows XP Mode VM".
For the record, I downloaded and installed XP Mode, then imported it in Workstation 7, and it ran just fine. I would not risk running both the VMware and Microsoft copies of that VM simultaneously, and I have also experienced difficulties (as in being prompted to re-activate Windows) after cloning that imported VM, but outside of that, it works as advertized.
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