Do I need seperate anti virus for XP mode?

ranjan2001 said:

OK done that, it now run in 32bit mode when I changed it in the settings but strangely I cant install the nvidia driver it gives me this error with nvidia XP driver version 180.50.

i don't see the need to install the driver, just go with 32-bit mode, use ClearType and maximize the screen to get the best display resolution. ok, back on topic...

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.

cortez said:

i don't see the need to install the driver, just go with 32-bit mode,

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.

ranjan2001 said:

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.

nope the closest thing to that is Virtualbox....
but then you need a separate windows xp disc...

darkassain said:

nope the closest thing to that is Virtualbox....
but then you need a separate windows xp disc...

VirtualBox can read VHD drive. Maybe can you use the VHD which come with XP mode

swarfega said:

If your XPM is like mine, it wont have installed an nvidia driver, instead its installed a generic s3 driver, presumably to reduce resources.

Swarfega,

Is there any way to update the generic s3 driver inside XPM?

This is really killing me and I am kind of bummed that Win 7 XPM virtualization doesn't allow you to override the 2001 S3 Trio32/4 driver.

Thanks