Virtual XP & Hardware

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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Sf3d0

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.

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Bob Comer


On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:18:23 -0600, Sf3d0 <>
wrote:

>
>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..?

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..

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Sf3d0

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.)

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Bob Comer


On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:00:54 -0600, Sf3d0 <>
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..?

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" <bobcomer-removeme-@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:...
> 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 <>
> 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..?