Ok Guys , Just don't wanna to confuse things. The First goal is to print
by a virtual machine (if possible). Then we go to the print quality. Jon
, I'm using Vmware player 3.x , but I think everything done here can be
replicate in your config. Regarding printing , DOXBOX megabuild worked
fine to me. But, as I'm having problems with keyboard mapping and ctrl-F
keys which are not working, I jumped to VMware. In vmware, CTRL-F keys
are working fine but printing is not working. By the way , My printer is
USB. Normal parallel would work fine. So I'm trying a workaround to see
if I can print from Vmware to my USB print. By what I saw in the forums
is very difficult to make VMware using a DOS guest OS to print to a USB
in the host. I tried the Net use LPT1 but it did not work. Tried a
software called printfile that can work to monitor a directory and send
all files there to the printer but vmware locks down the file that it
uses as a printer output when configured to work with output to file and
printfile is not working well due this particular aspect. Now I'm
testing if I can connect to the usb printer via the virtual machine
network. The most difficult part which is setup a dos netbios network is
already working but I'm still having some problems with the netbios and
the guest is not finding any resource shared on the host. Another point
is that I'm trying with Freedos and free tools , I have another Virtual
machine with MS-DOS/Windows 3.11 installed but in this case I cannot
make it available if it works. Anyway I'll continue to test with Vmware
, meanwhile if somebody has a DOXBOX config running fine pls advise.
Rgds...
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On 31/7/2011 19:51, [email protected] wrote:
On 2011-07-29 6:04 PM, Jong wrote:
Fabio:
Did you use VMWare 7 for this? I bought a copy and am waiting for a
new Toshiba Prot?g? portable to arrive to install. I hope to use
Dataperfect (which I run under the old WordPerfect Office) to continue
running my patient database program. Using usb output for a printer
is a must. I've seen a usb to parallel port converter at
www.cyberguys.com<http://www.cyberguys.com/> but their support told me
it wouldn't work unless
program running it saw the virtual parallel port.
SO, hope you can figure it out -- otherwise it leaves anyone with a
new computer dead in the water.
Jon Ong MD
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Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 2:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Dataperf] virtualization
Gentlemen , I know you are already very skilled in virtualization but
I didn't find any vmware appliance ready with DP, so I decide to build
one. It seems to be working fine, my only problem is with printing, as
I don't have a parallel print but an USB and I'm still trying to put
the appliance to print. I'm trying to redirect the LPT1 to USB via
windows but I'm not getting to much success. I tested dosbox megabuild
too but I'm having problems with CTRL-F keys. Printing is working fine
in DOXBOX after some changes in the config file. Does anybody have
success to remap the CTRL-F Keys ? Is it possible to copy the config
file and send in a msg to the list ? Regarding the vmware appliance,
as soon as I got success with the printer I'll try to let the appliance
available somewhere.
Rgds.
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