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If your XPM is like mine, it wont have installed an nvidia driver, instead its installed a generic s3 driver, presumably to reduce resources.
but there is more to it than that...
its because thats all that is emulated....
im guessing hardware in very hard to emulate unless your hardware (gpu in this case) has a sort of virtualization technologies like intel and amd have (and that the VMM can use)...
and technically you are right that if another more modern card was emulated there would be massive overhead and then not everyone (even with AMD-V or Intel-VTx) would not be able to use the vm...
and also its because thats what VPC 2007 had emulated..
Good info here; some questions I had were answered (primarily the 32 bit video mode). To answer one of the questions started on this thread (didn't see anyone answer this) Virutal PC for XP will only run XP in the 32 bit OS. Sorry that is just the nature of the beast.
One of my application needs GPU processing power (Open GL 2.0) I cant enable this option till the driver is installed.
So it means I cant use XPM with full power, its good only for "able to use old software" anyway I am just testing win7 but things look good & stable I will convert to the final version when launched.
Its important to remember that a virtual machine is just that, its virtual...meaning pretend.
It doesnt access your hardware directly but rather the hypervisor emulates hardware that the virtual machine uses.