This thread's last reply is from December 12, 2006, 6:17 AM UTC. Software, malware, and removal-tool
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silver
You don't get to use your real hardware as the hardware for a virtual PC, you only get to use the VPC emulated hardware, and all the options you have available for virtualized hardware can be seen in the configuration screen. If you are after 3D video support, it isn't in VPC 2004 or 2007. It's very similar on VMWare Server too.
Nick-YF19
As has been said, VPC uses virtual hardware for the guest operating system. If you are looking to test out high end 3D graphics, the Virtual PC is not what you are looking for. VPC also doesn't support USB. So using USB sticks and USB hard drives won't work either. It will recognize USB mice and keyboards used by the host system. VPC is free, unlike VMWare, though.
What we use it for is to test malware and antispyware programs. Another good use was testing IE 7 without having it on a real system to see how it works.
Here's a good podcast and transcript of VPC and VMWare from Steve Gibson's Security Now section of GRC.com
http://www.grc.com/sn/SN-057.htm
kao321
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