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Windows Forum / Virtual PC / May 2008Sending fax
I would like to send faxes using the modem on the computer but it does not show up on Device Manager - is it possible to send faxes with VM? > I would like to send faxes using the modem on the computer but it does not > show up on Device Manager - is it possible to send faxes with VM? This has nothing to do with Virtual PC per se... Sending a fax via a fax-capable device connected to the host (or other machine on the same network) is no different from any machine trying to use any other machine's fax device - the fact that one of the machines in your particular scenario is a virtual machine and not a physical machine is completely irrelevant... So... 1) What sort of fax device are you trying to use? 2) To which physical machine is it connected? 3) How is it connected?  SignatureMark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net 1) A modem 2) It is installed in my main computer on which VM is installed - the computer is not networked. 3) Modem is on the motherboard >> I would like to send faxes using the modem on the computer but it does >> not show up on Device Manager - is it possible to send faxes with VM? [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > 3) How is it connected? [top-posting corrected] >> 1) What sort of fax device are you trying to use? > > 1) A modem :-) >> 2) To which physical machine is it connected? > 2) It is installed in my main computer on which VM is installed - OK. Also, to avoid any future confusion, the application in question here is Virtual PC, sometimes abbreviated to VPC - virtual machines, sometimes abbreviated to VM, is what VPC creates... > the computer is not networked. Ah... >> 3) How is it connected? > 3) Modem is on the motherboard In which case, I fear that you're almost certainly out of luck. Does the fax modem create a pseudo COM port e.g. COM3 or COM4...? If so, your only course of action would be to map one of the COM ports in the VM to the fax modem's pseudo COM port on the host and use fax software which allows you to send directly to a COM port rather than to an installed modem, if such software even exists... SignatureMark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net >I would like to send faxes using the modem on the computer but it does not >show up on Device Manager - is it possible to send faxes with VM? No hardware you have added to your host PC will ever show up inside a guest. The PC hardware visible by the guest is immutable and defined by VPC2007 once and for all. In the case of modems you might be successful if you map COM1: on the guest to the com port of the modem on the host. But then the modem will not be available to the host.... Bo Berglund |
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