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This seems like an appropriate place to ask this question. At work I have an i5 with 8 GB of ram. Unfortunately we're stuck with XP 32. So is there a away for me to use more memory over all? Specifically I have to have Outlook and my VirtualBox Linux machine running at the same. I'd like to use bank switching or PAE to give my VM 4 GB. While all of the other applications just fight out for the remaining 4.


No, only Windows server editions have PAE enabled and AFAIK this isn't something you can use without kernel support.


Technically, all modern Windows versions have PAE enabled (the NX bit requires enabling PAE for instance), but Windows adds license-based memory restrictions on top of that.

That's how the 2GB limit on Starter, the 4GB limit on non-server and the various limits on server editions are implemented.

And there is a kernel hack/patch to lift that restriction, although it is of course fully unsupported: http://superuser.com/questions/52275/how-can-i-enable-pae-on...


Thanks for the info. It's sad that I out my employer will allow it.


would employer allow a linux install then XP in a VM or several? All problems solved then.


Run VMWare vSphere on the bare metal, virtualizing both XP and Linux. Of course, you'd have to re-install everything.

http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/faq.html




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