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From: Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk>
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Can anyone help me running Windows 5.1 (XP) as a VM under FreeBSD?

bhyve doesn't support anything older than Vista, and I'm unclear as to 
whether it supports 32-bit versions of that. I tried compiling 
Virtualbox a while back, but after a few days it was still going so I 
put it on the back burner. It wasn't clear how I'd get a Windows XP 
image on it anyway.

So what's the best way to do this? I need it to run various Windows 
32-bit utilities, USB related (e.g. dongle servers, USB connected 
hardware &c). I do have site-licensed Windows XP disks. Not to mention 
DOS software!

Thanks, Frank.