Comment Re:Need to regulate fracking (Score 1) 268
Can we have some hard data on how many restaurant-goers in fracking areas died because they drank frackwater the restaurant served?
Not if the software you need to run is a device driver for special hardware.
If it's USB, at least, the driver will work in an XP VM without the device being recognised in the host OS. My anecdotal evidence: old HP scanner with XP being the latest driver. No functioning driver in Win8, passed through and recognised and used in VirtualBox XP VM with zero issue.
Other pinned interfaces I can't vouch for but that's my cool story bro for USB.
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