Virtual machine on Vista x64 problem

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thevarious

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hi there, im a newbie here, hope ill find the answer here;)

I wanna ask, I have Windows Vista 64 (Home Premium) - and I have installed the Virtual Machine from microsoft - and installed the windows XP 32 and Windos Vista 32 bit inside that virtual PC - everythings great - workin fine, even the program cuz of which I have done this is workin, but there is one big BUT: neither of those windows find proper hardware on my PC - i have Asus P6T with i7 950 (CPU is found) but motherboard not.. also - graphic card not found properly (nVidia GT430) and the main drawback for me - I have a TV card - AverMedia -> to run along with a normal camera - but it dont even say there is any TV card in it - not even the slot for the card (even though I install all drivers neccessary for it... Why it doesnt find my hardware properly in that virtual system???

thank you

Peter
 

My Computer

System One

Becauase a virtual machine doesn't quite work that way. It generalizes the system, and those slots belong to the real computer.

It only replicates stuff, using generics. Especially gpus. You'll notice its a "generic" adapter. Last I played, only usb prts could be used as if it were An actusal computer.

Virtual machines are more for OS and software than using periphrials like gpus and pci slots.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Dual L5639 // i7 950 @ 4.0Ghz
    Motherboard
    Evga SR-2 // Gigabyte x58a-ud3r
    Memory
    12Gig Corsair XMS3 // 6Gig OCZ Gold
    Graphics card(s)
    gtx 560 ti // gtx 260-216
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual 22" // Headless
    Hard Drives
    OCZ aGILITY 3, 120Gig + Seagate 500Gig x 2
    PSU
    Silverstone da700 // Corsair 520hx
    Case
    Rosewill BlackHawk Ultra // Antec 900v1
    Cooling
    Twin CM Hyper 212+ // Noctua NH-u12
    Other Info
    Acer 8930 laptop with x9100...
Hello Peter, and welcome to the Vista Forums!

What Paton said above, basically :)

Virtual Machines work (simplistically) by taking every command the Virtual Machine asks for, and then asking the real hardware to do the work, and then passing back the result. Because of this, the Virtual Machine only sees those re-routing drivers, and not the real hardware.

This is slightly simplistic, but hopefully it gets the point across.

Richard
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 420
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.50GHz
    Motherboard
    Stock Dell 0TP406
    Memory
    4 gb (DDR2 800) 400MHz
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 3870 (512 MBytes)
    Sound Card
    Onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1 x Dell 2007FP and 1 x (old) Sonic flat screen
    Screen Resolution
    1600 x 1200 and 1280 x 1204
    Hard Drives
    1 x 640Gb (SATA 300) Western Digital: WDC WD6400AAKS-75A7B0 1 x 1Tb (SATA 600) Western Digital: Caviar Black, SATA 6GB/S, 64Mb cache, 8ms Western Digital: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 ATA Device
    PSU
    Stock PSU - 375W
    Case
    Dell XPS 420
    Cooling
    Stock Fan
    Mouse
    Advent Optical ADE-WG01 (colour change light up)
    Keyboard
    Dell Bluetooth
    Internet Speed
    120 kb/s
    Other Info
    ASUS USB 3.0 5Gbps/SATA 6Gbps - PCI-Express Combo Controller Card (U3S6)
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