Will XP mode allow legacy hardware?


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It will support some legacy peripherals, like USB printers and scanners that may not have drivers for Vista/7, but you can't put a SoundBlaster 16 in it and expect for it to work. It does not have direct hardware access like the host OS (Windows 7)

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It will support some legacy peripherals, like USB printers and scanners that may not have drivers for Vista/7, but you can't put a SoundBlaster 16 in it and expect for it to work. It does not have direct hardware access like the host OS (Windows 7)

Got older Soundblaster working in Win7 on an old Gateway pc by using XP driver in compatibility mode.

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it alows old USB hardware to work

i have a scanner that never got Vista+ drivers, opened up xpmode and it installed the drivers and worked fine

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The only things a virtualised OS can truly see are USB peripherals and the CPU. Everything else is handled through virtualised generic devices.

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