Undead Surfer Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 Barring booting into Windows, is it possible to have Windows run through OS X while having direct access to hardware? I mean in the sense of of current Mac OS X installation not having supported sound drivers. Now Parallels emulates the sound and because no sound device is detected, Windows has no sound even if the drivers for my sound hardware is available for Windows. So I was wondering if there was a solution that boots Windows, other than Boot Camp which would give Windows direct access to my sound hardware, allowing me to have sound through Windows while not having sound on my Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fobis Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 So far, this is only possible with Intel CPU's and its virtualization technology, but it's still not the best. With other hardware, it's impossible at this point unless they implement virtualization in it as well which I doubt will happen any time soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulu.Walker Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 So far, this is only possible with Intel CPU's and its virtualization technology, but it's still not the best.With other hardware, it's impossible at this point unless they implement virtualization in it as well which I doubt will happen any time soon. Basically... if your host OS cannot see the audio hardware, nothing else will. A virtual machine cannot emulate what the host OS does not have (or cannot detect) even if it works under Windows. Simple as that Remember, commercial developers design apps to work under fully-functional systems. Maybe trying to get your onboard or other sound device to work might be easier than looking for a solution that is currently nonexistent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baliw Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 /OT @ Zulu.Walker 'tol san ka sa Pinas? donicci Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulu.Walker Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 /OT @donicci QC po, 'kaw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baliw Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 /ot Dati sa Valenzuela , Pero ngayon sa Southern California na. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug the Impaler Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Virtualization in GPU's would be pretty hot; no need to boot natively into Windows; just make the machine all-Mac, all the time, and have a large enough virtual drive to install games to, or have a partition on a drive that's just for Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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