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>>>I don't see any advantage - VFP would still be running on XP, while XP would be hosted in a VM.
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>>>Microsoft would still require you to buy a copy of XP to do this.
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>>And you would be running slower than VFP on a native XP installation.
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>But you WOULD be running, rather than not at all. ($$$$$$ from Open Source users).

Sure, but after they buy the XP license and enough hardware to run acceptably the savings may not materialize or may not be much anyway..