Our idea is to run Win 7 as a Hyper-V guest on my Win 8 host, but we aren't sure as to how apps requiring access to my 3D graphics card (SolidWorks, NX, etc.) will appreciate being in a Hyper-V guest.

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Bringing Hyper-V to Windows 8 took some engineering savvy to pull off, according to Matthew John, a program manager on the Microsoft Hyper-V team, in the blog post. He describes the architectural ...