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How to boot Windows XP from Smalltalk Virtual Machine?

UPD. Sorry, guys :) It was a sort of joke... Actually I like this kind of questions, when we change the order of statements, So in that case it is possible to get interesting answers for different interpretation of such "reversed" questions :)

It's like a process of investigation if given operator (in terms of functional analysis) is bijective...

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At least with SqueakNOS you can directly boot your machine and don't even need a OS to run :) http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1762 http://squeaknos.blogspot.com/

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You've got it backwards. Langugage virtual machines like SmallTalk's and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) are programs that run "virtual assembly code". Virtualization software like VMWare run native assembly code in a virtual machine. Windows XP is written in (mostly) C and C++, and is compiled to native code.

Language Virtual Machines work like this:

   [Smalltalk/Java Bytecode]
             |
             V
[SmallTalk/Java Bytecode Machine]
             |
             V
      [Windows/Linux]
             |
             V
      [Native Machine]

What you want is a virtulalization program like VMWare, or xVM Virtual Box that creates a virtual computer on top of a real computer, with no instruction conversion/mapping.