On Fri, Jan 29, 2016, m...@markesystems.com wrote: > From: "j...@cimmeri.com" <j...@cimmeri.com> > >The one thing I'm not seeing mentioned > >in re VirtualBox is that what if you > >have a legacy Win 98SE system with > >hardware in it, like a GPIB card or > >sound card? Or if you have software > >that talks to hardware via serial or > >parallel ports eg. eprom burners, Zector > >ZVG vector graphic driver for MAME, etc. > > Yup, that's true. VirtualBox will provide one or two com ports (optionally > mapped to the real host ports, or just pipes to other virtual machines), but > it doesn't support the parallel port. And as you've pointed out, any > specialized hardware won't work at all (because the backplane doesn't really > exist).
I haven't attempted this yet, but a while back I ran across a thread saying you could use parallel port passthrough in a limited fashion: <https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=54187> -- Eric Christopherson
