At 10:34 -0800 12/21/07, Rich Cook wrote:
>I can tell you something that might give hope or despair:
>
>VMWare does emulate DirectX rendering, so it seems likely that this software might work. Why don't you download a trial version and test it?
I believe it will run under an emulator (vmware, parallels, etc). Certainly in BootCamp if you can get a non-parallel port dongle (ie a USB dongle).
However, when I said hardware I meant native PCI cards for data acquisition not merely a video card.
NI has a very interesting system for mechatronics. It involves interaction between a mechanical model, software and hardware to actually control the device. Running it all under a single OS would be ideal.
Here is a flavor of what can be done with this toolkit.
<http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/6183>
<http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/6025>
Certainly moving things back and forth manually between a parallels installation to check the hardware could be done. This is a stop gap measure until it can be unified.
The other problem with most of the virtualization packages is that you are really using the Windows OS as merely a software driver or interface glue.
-Scott
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