I have to agree Dave, I used fusion to set up my K144XV with no issues at all, I was using Windows 7 on fusion so I am not sure what Jim's problem would have been to cause the sort of issues he mentioned.
Roger VK3ADE On 01/08/2012, at 19:21, David Herring <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim, > > I'm not quite understanding why VMWare would be useless in this instance. > > If you are using a serial USB device, you get to choose whether to present > that device to the host OS (the mac) or to the guest OS (the instance of > windows in the VM). Simply load up your drivers in the instance of windows > running in your VM, choose to present this device to the guest OS (the VM) > and it should work FB. I used to do this all the time and it has always > worked perfectly. > > Now that said, I've never used the K144XV application so I don't know about > that, but I do know about VMware and when the drivers are loaded and the USB > serial port is presented to the VM, it's a serial port like any other. > > 73 & Aloha, > Dave, AH6TD > > > > On Jul 31, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Jim Bennett wrote: > >> Well, as JC Fogerty said in his "Stuck in Lodi Again" tune: things got >> tough, then things got worse… >> >> It turns out that VMWARE Fusion is worthless for trying to run the K144XV >> application under Win/XP. They send "serial port" data to a file, instead of >> to the USB bus. Wonderful. >> >> Two folks recommended using the $59 program "CrossOver" from CodeWeavers. >> They've got a 14 day free trial, so I thought I give it a shot. Installed >> their program and then installed the K144XV DOS utility. But, now I'm stuck >> - no idea how to define a COM port for this thing to use. The K3, P3, and >> KPA500 Utilities work fine with the Elecraft Serial-->USB cable, so I know >> I've got a working connection. Anyone know how to do this? >> >> Wayne / Eric / Gary: Any progress getting the Mac version of the K144XV >> utility going to complement the other products? >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
