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Is it possible for a copy of Windows to run on a Raspberry Pi?

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Hello i was wondering if it was possible to run either windows 8 or windows xp on a Raspberry Pi model B 512mb.

 

ever since i bought my Raspberry Pi i was always thinking of if my thought would be possible. Being a raspberry Pi it does not have the function to boot off a memory stick to install a copy of windows therefore that stopped my train of thought.

 

please someone will you be able to help me with my problem and either do a well documented walkthrough on a blog or would someone be able to make a video dissussing the topic and how to acheive this... thank you lloydpheasant.

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    If you could get ahold of the ARM version of Windows 8 you could probably run it straight on the Pi, the problem is it is only available to OEMs. This has been mentioned on the Raspberry Pi website. That leaves x86 emulation and remote desktop. Emulation would be horribly slow on any versoin of Windows XP and up. You could brobably run Windows 95 through DOS Box or something like that, but remote desktop is probably the best option if you already have a computer with Windows running on it and a decent network speed.

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    If you could get ahold of the ARM version of Windows 8 you could probably run it straight on the Pi, the problem is it is only available to OEMs. This has been mentioned on the Raspberry Pi website. That leaves x86 emulation and remote desktop. Emulation would be horribly slow on any versoin of Windows XP and up. You could brobably run Windows 95 through DOS Box or something like that, but remote desktop is probably the best option if you already have a computer with Windows running on it and a decent network speed.

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