Virtual machine on Vista x64 problem

[thevarious]

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

 

[Patonb]

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.

 

[niemiro]

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