Is it possible to acces my PCIe cards in MAX when I am running a virtual PC

[joes51385]

I am trying to run Labview from a virtual PC of XP (in windows 7).  Is it possible to access my PCIe cards through MAX on the virtual PC?  If so, how?

[rolfk]

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@joes51385 wrote:

I am trying to run Labview from a virtual PC of XP (in windows 7).  Is it possible to access my PCIe cards through MAX on the virtual PC?  If so, how?

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No! No virtualization software I'm aware of, will pass-through PCI devices to the virtual machine. It even often doesn't work with non-standard USB devices, depending on the virtual machine software and version and that is about 1000 times simpler to virtualize than a PCI bus.

[David S.]

Actually, I've used a USB M-series device with DAQmx 9.2 on a VMware Player machine several times with no problem. Windows Virtual PC (Win7 x64 "XP Mode"), however, seems to be failing miserably at exposing the device through the virtual layer. In general, I've found VMware Player to be much easier to use and more robust at handling devices and drivers than WVPC.

PCI and PCIe devices, though? I'd have to try a couple to confirm that those will work.