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Networking question: Win 7 remote desktop + VPN

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Cakemeister:
That's an interesting idea. There's a new version of VirtualBox available.

There would be some setup involved, but the payoff would be to get rid of the XP box (it is fairly noisy and consumes power).

2600:
FYI, VMware Player is free and now supports the option of making VMs.  There is also Microsoft's solution which is free and they have a premade XP VMs available.  That is there solution to Windows 7 and XP compatibility.

I thought you may like the power saving idea.

ChadTower:

It'll have to be a pretty beefy box to do that well if he plans on running a full XP VM and a full Windows 7 with P2P and such going.  Might even have to do that with two NICs.

2600:
I'll admit I'm a bit spoiled with PC Hardware, but you don't really need that beefy of a box.  RAM is nice to have especially when you are on a laptop that has a slower HD.

ChadTower:

Honestly, in this situation, I'd just use a laptop as the VPN client.  I do that all the time at home.  The machine I use to VPN in to work is corporate issue so it's a laptop.  Sits on the same LAN as everything else in my house but is isolated because of the VPN connection to corporate.  Switch with a regular A/V switcher.

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