Keyboard: SteelSeries Apex Pro Wired Gaming Keyboard Monitor(s) Displays: Eve Spectrum ES07D02 280 Hz QHD | Eve Spectrum ES07D03 4K Gaming Monitor Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XC3 ULTRA GAMING (12G-P5-3955-KR) System Manufacturer/Model Number: The Beast Mark A (homebrew) So to be clear, I system restored to a state before I switched on HyperV, before re-using the earlier Disk2VHD copy of my old Win XP Mode in Oracle VirtualBox.
There seemed to be possible complications with having Oracle VirtualBox and HyperV on the same Windows 10 machine (not clear, conflicting information, I didn't have time to sort out). Hence the need for intuitive switching between the two. My workflow is such that for 10 minutes each day, there are similar (but not identical!) data entries being made about the day's events in both an old program on XP and a newer program on Windows 10. Is there any other reason I should be using HyperV not VirtualBox? Anything I'm going to find out later? My requirement is basic data entry. Oracle VirtualBox requires only to release the mouse (or sometimes it doesn't seem to require anything, I can switch between Windows XP and the host operating system just by moving the mouse, the same as I could with XP Mode in Windows 7). There is an option to change these keystrokes, but only to other collections of three keys. Hyper V captures the mouse and requires constant clicking on to release it. What I mean by "side by side working more intuitive in VirtualBox" is this: Once booted in VirtualBox, it did require a repeat of the telephone activation done last night in HyperV (it complained "you system has changed substantially since you activated it"), but I was able to do this by telephone as before. I was able to use the same VHD (created as per instructions in post 1 of this thread) into Oracle Virtualbox. Although this is described as more basic, it seems to handle working in Windows XP and Windows 10 side-by-side in a much intuitive way. Oracle Virtualbox didn't seem to capture the mouse, it worked better side-by-side with Windows 10 (more like Windows XP Mode + Windows 7 did). Is there any way to stop this?īefore finding this page I originally tried a fresh download of XP Mode to Oracle Virtualbox (before realising it might stop working after 30 days, which is no use to me). I don't like the way Windows XP captures the mouse (I need to work side by side in Windows XP and Windows 10 every day). I made the Windows XP desktop larger by changing the screen resolution.