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   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   > 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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