Serial ports under VirtualBox

2010-06-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt


A month or so ago I posted the following, I was wondering if
anyone has taken a look at the disconnect then cannot
reconnect problem in the port.  There is an update to
the bug I referenced here that will help the situation,
but it won't do any good if the FreeBSD port still has the
disconnect then cannot reconnect problem with the serial
ports.

Ted

On 4/22/2010 4:04 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

Hi All,

Host is FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT Ports are from CVS done 4/17

VirtualBox 3.1.6 OSE with FreeBSD setup as the host OS

Hardware is dual Xeon 2.0Mhz

Client OS is Windows XP SP3

XP runs great except for the serial ports. I have an app that calls
pagers and dials a USR 56k Sportster

I can cu -l /dev/cuau0 -s 57600 to the modem and send AT commands
to it just fine.

When I first tried accessing the serial port from the XP session it failed
completely. Then I found a patch on http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1548
and applied this and now I can talk to the modem from the XP session.

However there is a problem with opening and closing the serial
port.

I can run VirtualBox, boot the XP session, go into Hyperterminal,
open the assigned com port, send at commands to the modem, get responses,
dial into my remote, everything works fine. But then once I close the
session
and disconnect from the COM port from Hyperterminal, when I try to
reopen the port I get nothing.

If I reboot the XP session within the virtual machine I still get nothing.

I have to close VirtualBox down, then restart it before I can
access the serial port again.

Any suggestions?

Ted



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Re: Serial ports under VirtualBox

2010-06-05 Thread Beat Gaetzi
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
 
 A month or so ago I posted the following, I was wondering if
 anyone has taken a look at the disconnect then cannot
 reconnect problem in the port.  There is an update to
 the bug I referenced here that will help the situation,
 but it won't do any good if the FreeBSD port still has the
 disconnect then cannot reconnect problem with the serial
 ports.

According to the information from the ticket this problem should be
fixed in VirtualBox 3.2.2. Could you please try the virtualbox-ose-kmod
and virtualbox-ose port from our development repository and check if the
problem is fixed for you:

https://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port.tar.gz

Beat
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Re: Serial ports under VirtualBox

2010-06-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt

On 6/5/2010 2:40 AM, Beat Gaetzi wrote:

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:


A month or so ago I posted the following, I was wondering if
anyone has taken a look at the disconnect then cannot
reconnect problem in the port.  There is an update to
the bug I referenced here that will help the situation,
but it won't do any good if the FreeBSD port still has the
disconnect then cannot reconnect problem with the serial
ports.


According to the information from the ticket this problem should be
fixed in VirtualBox 3.2.2. Could you please try the virtualbox-ose-kmod
and virtualbox-ose port from our development repository and check if the
problem is fixed for you:

https://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port.tar.gz

Beat


Under what version of FreeBSD?

Ted
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