Can MS Virtual PC Access NI Hardware on the Host System?

[Derek Price]

We use multiple versions of LabVIEW and NI-DAQ (legacy hardware) and I was considering using Microsoft's Virtual PC to create a Windows 2000 virtual PC on my Windows XP system to program the legacy code.  If I have a NI card (like a PCI-DIO-96) in my computer, will it be recognized by the virtual PC, too?  If not, then I'll stick to having two systems...

Thanks

[unclebump]

Try boot magic and partition magic. I have a laptop at work with Dos, Win98, Win2000 and winXP. You select the system that you want to run at startup. Make a ghost backup before you do anything. I think the XP boot partition has to be below 8Gb on the hard drive. You should be able to have somewhere around a 6-7GB win2000 partition.

[tuba]

Microsoft Virtual Server does not provide for direct hardware access from a virtual server to the host computer.  I was actually looking into this as soon as I saw that Virtual Server is now free.  All access to hardware is provided by generic abstraction layers, creating a sort of "virtual computer" that doesn't necessarily have anything in common with the actual hardware on the host computer.

-tuba

[Derek Price]

That's what I was afraid of.  It's too bad really - this would have been an ideal application for legacy versions.

Thanks for the info!