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From: Sf3d0 on 17 Nov 2009 14:18 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..? -- Sf3d0
From: Robert Comer on 18 Nov 2009 10:09 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 <guest(a)unknown-email.com> 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..?
From: Mark Rae [MVP] on 18 Nov 2009 10:42 "Sf3d0" <guest(a)unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:7bec09397ca4090ac1c009650110293e(a)nntp-gateway.com... > Is there any way that virtual machines can recognize the physical hardware > on my computer..? Like my soundcard or my graphics card etc..? http://vpc.visualwin.com/ngfaq.aspx#8 -- Mark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net
From: Sf3d0 on 18 Nov 2009 15:00 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..? -- Sf3d0
From: Robert Comer on 18 Nov 2009 15:30
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..? |