Free XP Virtual machine

[GreGorGy]

I'm struggling to understand the question. Could you rephrase?

I think, and I could be mistaken, he has older gear that might need a firmware upgrade. And said firmware upgrade only runs on older windoze versions. So his question, and I am guessing here, is:

Will a VM version of the older windoze, running on newer hardware, be able to upgrade the firmware on the older hardware?

I am not a power win user so I have no idea. I would, however, say that there can be no harm in trying.

 

[SkyWolf]

I think, and I could be mistaken, he has older gear that might need a firmware upgrade. And said firmware upgrade only runs on older windoze versions. So his question, and I am guessing here, is:

Will a VM version of the older windoze, running on newer hardware, be able to upgrade the firmware on the older hardware?

I am not a power win user so I have no idea. I would, however, say that there can be no harm in trying.

It could be tricky interfacing with external hardware but why not give it a go?

Thanks to you both for responding

So firstly I'm not advanced in IT as I've been seeing in this thread lol.

As GreGorGy said, I have older equipment that needs updating & left it but after reading this thread got me curious to know if it can be done..

So effectively I wanted to find out from you guys knowledge if it's possible using a Windows 10 machine with new drivers, etc loaded with a virtual Windows xp image for updating the equipment? Or as you say, it would be tricky with the newer external hardware which also leads to consideration of compatibility of the older equipment once plugged in?

I'll have to read up on how to load an older Windows on 10 before I give it a try & also need to dig out the devices lol just wanted to do my homework first.