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XP as a dual boot with Windows 10

Hello Experts.

What is the best path to install Windows XP as a dual boot with current Windows 10 or on separate disk
on the following new machine? How reliable is this for legacy games?

Dell XPS x8900-8756BLK Desktop (6th Generaton Intel Core i7) NVIDIA GTX 960
Intel Quad Core i7-6700K 4 GHz Processor
32 GB DDR4 RAM Included; 32 GB Maxium
2 TB HDD + 256 GB SSD Storage; Blu-ray and DVD/CD Combo Drive; 10 USB Ports
Windows 10 Operating System

The back end idea is to use XP for legacy games.

Thank you.
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VMWare Player is available here:  http://www.vmware.com/products/player.html

Note that it's free for personal use.
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VMWare Player also provides full hardware acceleration support for graphics and supports the hardware virtualization support of the processors as well (both vt-x and vt-d).     The VMs you create for it are also very portable => you can move them to any other hardware you want as you upgrade systems, as long as you have VMWare on that system.
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Both VMware Workstation Player and VirtualBox have "unity mode" (in Virtualbox it is just called something else). Besides, if you need special network settings you can directly edit files, you don't need a special editor for that.

In my point of view just to run a simple XP VM for some old games a paid product is overkill, and as it is an obsolete, insecure OS you shouldn't have any network access at all. Actually even keeping XP just for some old games doesn't make much sense.
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Thank you.