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From: Bill Grant on 18 Nov 2009 19:31 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-(a)mindspring.com> wrote in message news:qkl8g5ppp0b0frfkfe3a71468t99crjl7t(a)4ax.com... > 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 <guest(a)unknown-email.com> > 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..?
From: Mark Rae [MVP] on 19 Nov 2009 05:39
"Sf3d0" <guest(a)unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:21462445b18948732c6825add148557c(a)nntp-gateway.com... > Thank you both for your answers..:) > But I'm also keen on VMware..Is there any way to recognize my hardware > using this program..? No - all software virtualisation solutions work the same way i.e. by hardware emulation. > Or any other way to do it..? 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 |