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Serial Port access for Windows98 guest?

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 12/06/2007
From: "Bob Mgr" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Which host do I need to make this work?

We've got a Windows98 machine which uses a legacy app for collecting data
from test equipment with a 9-pin serial port.

Last I checked in serial ports were not supported, even in vmware.

Thanks for any help!

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RE: Serial Port access for Windows98 guest?

Sent: 12/06/2007
From: Steve Jain
Message:

"Bob Mgr" wrote:

Virtual PC has always supported serial ports, from the original Windows
version 4 by Connectix (2001). Virtual Server has serial port support.

VMWare Workstation has had serial ports since at least version 3 (2001), and
I'm pretty sure that version 2 had it as well, but that was back in 2000 when
I last used version 2. VMWare Server also supports them.

I didn't check to verify, but I think all of the common current vm apps
support serial ports.

Is there some specific issue with serial ports you ran into that led you to
this?

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> Which host do I need to make this work?
>
> We've got a Windows98 machine which uses a legacy app for collecting data
> from test equipment with a 9-pin serial port.
>
> Last I checked in serial ports were not supported, even in vmware.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>

Re: Serial Port access for Windows98 guest?

Sent: 12/07/2007
From: "Mark Rae [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

"Bob Mgr" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

Any of the supported ones, I'd say...

Vista Ultimate
Vista Enterprise
Vista Business
Windows 2003 Server
XP Pro
XP Tablet PC

Virtual machines can support up to two virtual COM ports - open up the help
and look for "Configure a COM port for a virtual machine"

--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

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> Which host do I need to make this work?
> We've got a Windows98 machine which uses a legacy app for collecting data
> from test equipment with a 9-pin serial port.
>
> Last I checked in serial ports were not supported, even in vmware.

Re: Serial Port access for Windows98 guest?

Sent: 12/07/2007
From: Bo Berglund <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:20:10 -0800, "Bob Mgr"
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

I don't know where you checked because com ports *have* been supported
in both VPC and VMWare since very long....

However I have detected a problem with the handling in VPC2007 that
makes some applications in the guest have problem seeing incoming data
through Windows events. I discovered this during the VPC2007 beta
phase, but too late for MS to put in a fix.

So my advice is that you should use VPC2004 for these guests rather
than VPC2007. VPC2004 and VPC2007 can co-exist on the same host
provided you:

1) Install VPC2007 first (its installer will either "upgrade" an
existing VPC2004 installation or require you to uninstall it manually
first).

2) Install VPC2004 into a different folder than the one the installer
suggests (not the same as VPC2007 is in)

3) Don't run both VPC2004 and VPC2007 at the same time.

I also believe VPC2004 comes with better support for older MS
operating systems than VPC2007 does in terms of additions.

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>Which host do I need to make this work?
>
>We've got a Windows98 machine which uses a legacy app for collecting data
>from test equipment with a 9-pin serial port.
>
>Last I checked in serial ports were not supported, even in vmware.
>

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