Hi My experience with several VM's has been unrewarding in terms of drivers. The driver lives on the main OS and may or may not pass through to the VM. You seem to get a sub-set of the main OS devices in the VM...
Not a good thing for hardware hacking. Bob -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Peter Bell Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 5:08 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Could someone please recommend GPIB card Yeah, it's a bit of a pain - it's basically intended for people running old XP apps that they don't want to (or can't) port to the newer versions of Windows. The other thing to watch out for is that as far as I'm aware all the hardware is emulated with a little hack to allow USB passthough - so the only things you can run the drivers for in the virtual machine are USB devices and not things like PCI cards. On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:50 PM, gary <li...@lazygranch.com> wrote: >> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx > > I didn't install it, but it looks like if you have win 7 pro 64 bit, it is a > free download. You need to use IE and instal a validation plugin. Half a gig > of a download! > > Now I suspect a 32bit driver might work with the VM. I have an old > usb/serial that won't install in 64 bit windows, but I just replaced the > hardware. The VM needs to be allotted RAM. Kind of messy. However, this is a > good experiment, presuming I can uninstall this VM. > > > > > > On 10/11/2011 12:51 AM, Peter Bell wrote: >> >> Thry are two different things - you're talking about the compatibity >> mode built into the OS, but the other poster is talking about "Windows >> XP mode" - which is basically a copy of XP running inside a Virtual PC >> VM that's available as a download for the "business" variants of Win 7 >> (which are, not coincidentally, the ones that have XP downgrade rights >> anyway). >> >> @David Taylor > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.