On Tuesday 14 January 2003 12:24 pm, Steve Miller wrote:
Hi,
At my job, the lab is standardized on the pClamp data acquisition software suite and Digidata 1322 data acquisition hardware, both from Axon Instruments. The software is designed for MS Windows.
I'm going to try running Windows and therefore pClamp from VMWare installed on a SuSE 8.1 system. The data acquisition hardware will interface with the computer via a PCI slot. Has anyone done this or tried it? If so, were there major pitfalls you could warn me about? How happy with the configuration are you?
I'm very happy with VMWare software (give it lots of memory in its setup) but I think you're going to have problems on two scores: 1) Real time software might have problems. (I'm assuming your software needs pretty good performance for real-time operation) 2) Not sure you're going to be able to access a special PCI card without some sort of connection made between your Linux system and VMWare. VMWare doesn't have full run of the hardware on your machine... only those items which have been provided for by the VMWare people. Haven't done any of this... those are just my thoughts. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 01/14/03 12:39 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travelers pay the expense of it."