The question comes up from time to time, whether running Windows XP in
86Box is a good idea. While the OS runs, the answer is usually “no”
outside a vanishingly few use cases.
Most people asking this are also seeking to run games or programs that
require Windows XP, and those pieces of software probably have much
steeper requirements than XP itself and either won’t run at all under
86Box, or have completely unsatisfactory performance.
People that only want to ask “Can it run XP?” will probably ignore
this advice and do it anyway. :-)
