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Virtual XP & Hardware

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 11/17/2009
From: Sf3d0 <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Is there any way that virtual machines can recognize the real hardwar
on my computer..? Like my soundcard or my graphics card etc..? When I g
to my Virtual XP Sound And Audio Device Settings, my dafault device i
Microsoft RDP Audio Driver..How can I change it to my Asus Xonar D2X..

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Re: Virtual XP & Hardware

Sent: 11/18/2009
From: Robert Comer <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

No, there's no way. Virtual machines only have access to a specific
set of emulated hardware.

If you're using the new Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7, you can use
the hosts USB devices and that's pretty much it.

--
Bob Comer

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:18:23 -0600, Sf3d0 <(email address - cut out)>
wrote:

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>
>Is there any way that virtual machines can recognize the real hardware
>on my computer..? Like my soundcard or my graphics card etc..? When I go
>to my Virtual XP Sound And Audio Device Settings, my dafault device is
>Microsoft RDP Audio Driver..How can I change it to my Asus Xonar D2X..?

Re: Virtual XP & Hardware

Sent: 11/18/2009
From: Sf3d0 <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Thank you both for your answers..:
But I'm also keen on VMware..Is there any way to recognize my hardwar
using this program..? Or any other way to do it..

--
Sf3d0

Re: Virtual XP & Hardware

Sent: 11/18/2009
From: Robert Comer <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

No, VMWare is the same that way. You're always going to see this in a
virtualization product -- one of the biggest draw of virtualization is
hardware independence, and that's only done by presenting the same
hardware to the VM all the time.

There is a very special (and costly) version of one of the
virtualization products that can use a host video card (it has to have
two to pull this off, and it has to be VERY specific hardware.) I
don't remember what it was but I don't have a couple thousand to throw
at something like that.

For the future, there are some new things being built into CPU's to
make it easier, but I don't see a VM having full access any time
soon... (nor do I think I'd want it to -- if you need that kind of
access it's going to be cheaper to just run it on the host rather than
dealing with a VM.)

--
Bob Comer

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:00:54 -0600, Sf3d0 <(email address - cut out)>
wrote:

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>
>Thank you both for your answers..:)
>But I'm also keen on VMware..Is there any way to recognize my hardware
>using this program..? Or any other way to do it..?

Re: Virtual XP & Hardware

Sent: 11/18/2009
From: "Mark Rae [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

"Sf3d0" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

http://vpc.visualwin.com/ngfaq.aspx#8

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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

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> Is there any way that virtual machines can recognize the physical hardware
> on my computer..? Like my soundcard or my graphics card etc..?

Re: Virtual XP & Hardware

Sent: 11/19/2009
From: "Mark Rae [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

"Sf3d0" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

No - all software virtualisation solutions work the same way i.e. by
hardware emulation.

Not with virtualisation. If you absolutely must have more than one operating
system using the same physical hardware, you'll need to go for a multi-boot
solution. Of course, you can then run only one of the installed OS at any
one time...

--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

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> Thank you both for your answers..:)
> But I'm also keen on VMware..Is there any way to recognize my hardware
> using this program..?
> Or any other way to do it..?

Re: Virtual XP & Hardware

Sent: 11/19/2009
From: "Bill Grant" <not.available@online>
Message:

The whole point of a virtual machine is that it is independent of the host
on which it runs. The "machine" is a software construct. It has its own
emulated hardware, which does not change when you change hosts.

"Robert Comer" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

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> No, VMWare is the same that way. You're always going to see this in a
> virtualization product -- one of the biggest draw of virtualization is
> hardware independence, and that's only done by presenting the same
> hardware to the VM all the time.
>
> There is a very special (and costly) version of one of the
> virtualization products that can use a host video card (it has to have
> two to pull this off, and it has to be VERY specific hardware.) I
> don't remember what it was but I don't have a couple thousand to throw
> at something like that.
>
> For the future, there are some new things being built into CPU's to
> make it easier, but I don't see a VM having full access any time
> soon... (nor do I think I'd want it to -- if you need that kind of
> access it's going to be cheaper to just run it on the host rather than
> dealing with a VM.)
>
> --
> Bob Comer
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:00:54 -0600, Sf3d0 <(email address - cut out)>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>Thank you both for your answers..:)
>>But I'm also keen on VMware..Is there any way to recognize my hardware
>>using this program..? Or any other way to do it..?

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