Suggestion: Run DPSpool on the host OS, having it monitor a folder that the guest OS can write to. Send your print jobs from DP running in the guest OS to that folder, and let DPSpool running on the host OS print them.
Since DPSpool is a 32-bit application, there's no problem running it under 32-bit or 64-bit Windows. Tim Rude ----- Original Message ----- From: Muller Fabio To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 10:49 PM Subject: Re: [Dataperf] virtualization 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... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [ <mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Muller Fabio 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. _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
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