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williyam
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PCI Support in Win95 or DOS Machine

What kind of support does VM Workstation offer for PCI devices, in particular a GPIB communication card.

We currently use a GPIB card to communicate with a HP meter in DOS or Windows95 command box. The driver itself is DOS based and only uses the IO addressing.

Any info would be good.

Thanks

Will

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RDPetruska
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>What kind of support does VM Workstation offer for PCI devices, in particular a GPIB communication card.

None. The design of the PCI bus does not allow for multiple masters, which would be necessary to virtualize the cards. Search this forum for an excellent technical discussion of the topic by Petr.

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