Dear Mr Rasnita, Vmware player shipped with Vinux virtual image should be usable also with Windows Xp. But please, keep in mind, that eventhough Vmware player is one of The best virtualisation product on The world, The speech responsiveness will be slightly slover than while running regular operating system installation. As i have understood Yours question, You would like to have two virtual machines installed with Vmware player. One with Windows XP and second with Vinux. There are no legally available preinstalled Vmware player or other virtualisations prepared appliances with Windows XP preinstalled. You would had to install Windows XP. You must use two separate virtual machines, one, which will be preinstalled will beš with Vinux. Second, which You would had to create by using Vmware player virtual machine creation wizard will contain settings for installing Windows XP operating system. You have two possibilities. Use sighted help to install this operating system to The virtual machine, or You would had to use special freely available software for creating fully unattended Windows XP installation. There are two such products, which are accessible with screen readers from Windows. Windows Unattended CD Creator or Nlite. You have also The possibility to boot directly from .iso image with Windows Xp, because installing from CD or DVD can take slightly more time than installing to The normal system, not to virtual machine. Yours issues with sound are very interesting. Important is not change predefined Vinux virtual machine settings, do not apply system upgrades, because upgrades can break The Pulseaudio and Alsa sound server configuration, which have been specially modified by Vinux development team. Mr Enigball is producing according to my opinion stable Virtual machines with Vinux. I have experience, that Windows XP and Linux can be run to gether. But remember, that using those operating system from Virtual machine can fragment Yours NTFS partition with The operating system, from which virtual machine must be executed. But i understand You, that You want to use some Linux specific applications from Windows, aspecially because Vinux virtual machinee and vinux itself is having The setting to share The folder between Windows and Vinux. And keep on míind, that installing Windows XP to virtual machine have The same effect like installing Yours copy to other computer, so be careful because of licensing conditions of Windows Xp operating system, which You would had to install to virtual machine. You will have two virtual harddisk files, one for Vinux, second will be created by The wizard of Vmware Player product. If You would need AN help, please let me know.