[dba-Tech] Virtual PC - Concerning Drivers

John Bartow john at winhaven.net
Mon Oct 20 14:15:29 CDT 2008


I have customer with a specialized machine that is run by a NT4 PC about 8
years old now. It all works wonderfully but given the age I have advised
them to budget for a replacement. The cost is high enough that they would
have to get a loan for it. So they wanted alternatives. The PC has numerous,
older SCSI connectors which are probably not supported with drivers for
newer Windows and the software is out of date so would probably not run on
newer Windows.

My question is this: could this be done through a Virtual PC running on a
new WXP, Server 2003/2008 or Vista or does the platform hosting the Virtual
PC have to support the hardware too? 

John B





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