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Windows 7 - Virtualizing Specific Hardware?


 
10-07-2011   #1


Windows 7 Home Premium x64
 
 

Virtualizing Specific Hardware?

Is there any Virtualization program that can emulate specific hardware? It'd be nice for testing apps on older specs.

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10-10-2011   #2


windows 7
 
 


This would be very tough. All virtualizers available today only emulate a very small set of standard hardware devices. If your device is USB based, it may work inside a vm. The biggest drawback about vm is the lack of hardware supports.

Last edited by huisinro; 10-10-2011 at 11:32 AM.. Reason: typo
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10-12-2011   #3


Windows Server 2008 R2
 
 


Well, to be fair, that's also the main benefit of virtualization as well - you can take a virtual machine from (for example) VirtualPC on one PC and move it to another, and the "hardware" in the virtual machine stays the same.
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