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!
Mark Rae [MVP] - 07 Dec 2007 00:30 GMT
> Which host do I need to make this work?
Any of the supported ones, I'd say...
Vista Ultimate
Vista Enterprise
Vista Business
Windows 2003 Server
XP Pro
XP Tablet PC
> 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.
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"

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Steve Jain - 07 Dec 2007 04:11 GMT
> Which host do I need to make this work?
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> Thanks for any help!
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?
Bo Berglund - 07 Dec 2007 06:57 GMT
>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.
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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