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On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:10:23 -0800
perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:

> XP itself, when running directly on the hardware, provides its own
> graphics environment.  It should be able to do the same running on
> a VM with a virtualized keyboard, mouse, and display.

	Yes, but the virtualised display talks to X as the display backend.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <ateve@sohara.org>