Virtual machines and NI hardware

[pincpanter]

Hello LabVIEWers,

I tried to install the old DAQ-mX 7.5 to drive a NI 6601 PCI card under Microsoft's Virtual XP (host is Win7 Pro).

The driver installation failed somewhere (the errore message did'nt specify exactly what went wrong).

Also, the card itself was not seen by the virtualized OS.

Documentation available is somewhat limited and confusing, so I prefer to ask to actual users.

Are you running multiple LabVIEW versions on different VM's? Which ones? Do you get troubles?

Are the virtual OS really able to recognize the hardware? Is it possible to install different versions of the DAQ drivers on each?

Thank you in advance for your help

[JÞB]

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@pincpanter wrote:

Hello LabVIEWers,

I tried to install the old DAQ-mX 7.5 to drive a NI 6601 PCI card under Microsoft's Virtual XP (host is Win7 Pro).

The driver installation failed somewhere (the errore message did'nt specify exactly what went wrong).

Also, the card itself was not seen by the virtualized OS.

Documentation available is somewhat limited and confusing, so I prefer to ask to actual users.

Are you running multiple LabVIEW versions on different VM's? Which ones? Do you get troubles?

Are the virtual OS really able to recognize the hardware? Is it possible to install different versions of the DAQ drivers on each?

Thank you in advance for your help

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The PCI bus is not exposed to the MS XP virtual machine -  You can't get there on that VM although.. while not officially supported other XP VM emulators do exist.  a quick search on the forums should yeild results

[pincpanter]

Thank you for your answer. I actually already tried a "quick search" with rather poor results.

However I retried with different keywords, finding something more.

My (temporary) bottom line is that you can't use VM's when PCI hardware interaction is required, and even USB hardware could be problematic.

The way to go is to upgrade to newer LabVIEW and driver versions.

[BCL@Servodan]

Have You tried VMWare Player?

[pincpanter]

I didn't try anything but MS Virtual XP. Honestly I asked the community just to avoid further useless and time consuming tests.

I took a look at the VMware site but from the available doumentation I couldn't figure out what kind of hardware can be shared.

However, another LabVIEW forum user states for sure that the PCI bus is not available under VMware.

[BCL@Servodan]

You might need VMWare Workstation to create a Virtual Machine (including PCI-cards).

It can be downloaded from vmware's website and has a 30-day trial period.

After that, You can use the VMware Player to run (but not edit) the Virtual Machine.

Hope this helps You.