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Re: What support for Plug-and-Play does your virtual machine have?

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> Why would you need P-n-P?  It's virtual after all, and you can't 
> attach a virtual display on the fly while the VM is running.
>

One needs it to determine how the virtual machine has been configured, 
of course.  The fact that one cannot dynamically reconfigure after boot 
time is a red herring.  One can still modify the virtual machine's 
configuration.  And even if one could not modify it, it would still have 
a (fake) hardware configuration that would need to be obtained in some 
way.  Indeed, real machines are in the latter category.  One cannot 
dynamically reconfigure the (so-called) system devices of real machines 
after power-on.  (Indeed, one cannot reconfigure several of them with 
the power off, they being integral to the motherboard.)  But they're 
there.  They exist and their existence and configuration has to be obtained.

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Re: What support for Plug-and-Play does your virtual machine have? Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> - 2011-02-01 19:49 -0500
  Re: What support for Plug-and-Play does your virtual machine have? Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-02-02 05:11 +0000

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