In article <9c07b30ee0055@uwe>, oao <u54735@uwe> wrote:
>>In virtual machines access is only provided to the ports on the host
>>machine – USB, serial, parallel, etc, – and any peripherals are driven
>>by drivers in the guest OS. If you install 32-bit XP as a guest you will
>>need XP drivers for any device you want to use from that machine.
>
>Do you mean that I can install the XP32 printer driver in the virtual machine
>and it will
>print to the USB port of the XP64 host?
>
>My impression is that the VM uses the drivers of the host, not its own
>drivers.
>
>Furthermore, Virtual PC 2007 does bot seem to support USB ports.
>
>>You can also do what you want with VirtualBox
>>http://www.virtualbox.org/. I think you would need the 1.6.6 version
>>since your CPU does not have virtualisation.
>
>The CPU is an Intel Core Duo T5750 — my guess is that it does not support
>virtualization.
>
>>In virtual machines access is only provided to the ports on the host
>>machine – USB, serial, parallel, etc, – and any peripherals are driven
>>by drivers in the guest OS. If you install 32-bit XP as a guest you will
>>need XP drivers for any device you want to use from that machine.
>
>Do you mean that I can install the XP32 printer driver in the virtual machine
>and it will
>print to the USB port of the XP64 host?
>
>My impression is that the VM uses the drivers of the host, not its own
>drivers.
>
>Furthermore, Virtual PC 2007 does bot seem to support USB ports.
>
>>You can also do what you want with VirtualBox
>>http://www.virtualbox.org/. I think you would need the 1.6.6 version
>>since your CPU does not have virtualisation.
>
>The CPU is an Intel Core Duo T5750 — my guess is that it does not support
>virtualization.
>
Here’s the link to Intel’s page. Unfortunately I don’t see your CPU.
http://ark.intel.com/VTList.aspx
Can an XP Virtual machine "attach" to a dedicated USB port so the XP
print drivers are speaking directly to the printer?
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Al Dykes
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