Using LabVIEW 7.1 and LabVIEW 2010 on the same PC (Windows XP)

I have LabVIEW 7.1 on a Windows XP 32-bit PC and we plan to upgrade to LabVIEW 2010 soon. A lot of our software is using Traditional DAQ, DAQmx and DeviceNet. We need to use both versions of LabVIEW for some time on the same PC. Is this possible at all?
I installed an evaluation 2010 version and now I don't have DAQ and DeviceNet in LabVIEW 7.1. Any suggestions will be very helpful.
Thanks, Nick
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For what it is worth, I tried having multiple versions of LabVIEW on the same PC.  If you are (very) careful, it is possible to do so, as long as you are only doing development work, i.e. you don't try and install LabVIEW drivers.  However, as I've discovered to my great sorrow (which involved installing and removing various versions of LabVIEW on the same machine probably 5-8 times, eventually leading to wiping the machine and installing WinXP all over again, then only one version of LabVIEW), if you want to actually run your code, particularly if it does anything with hardware, you need to stick to one version!
There's another "gotcha" for those of us working with "older" versions (namely before 2009, though one can "trick" 8.6 if you're careful) -- Windows 7 doesn't "play well" with the older software!
So my development machine runs Windows 7.  I have a VM of Windows XP in which I installed LabVIEW 7, which I use for my "legacy" work -- I use the Win 7 machine for LabVIEW 8.6, 2009, and 2010 development (and only development, see above).
The machine that got "rebuilt", where I wanted to run LabVIEW code for various hardware and potentially various LabVIEW versions, I did a really nutty thing -- I created a quadruple-boot PC!  (It really is a triple-booter, as the Windows 7 system, which is the key step, is "hidden").  To make this work properly, I needed three hard drives in the machine (one for each OS -- I might have figured out how to put two XPs on a single drive, but since I already had the disks, one-OS-per-disk seemed easier).  I'm using Windows 7's Boot Loader to give me the startup choice of which system to use (the message says something like "System for Hardware A", "System for Hardware B", "Test System").  True, you need to do a Restart, but since you're going to be collecting data, it's not such a bad idea to start with a "fresh machine".
[I did think about doing this with Virtual Machines, which would have been much simpler, but I didn't have "virtual drivers" for the hardware!  One piece was actually a USB device, but the other was a proprietary device that plugged into my PC ...]

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