This is retrospective of what I think went wrong... Having given up on dos6.22, I was pleased with the install of xp guest, until I got to the serial needs. Try as I might, I could not get the open-source to talk to the "real" ttyS0 in "master", or the belkin converter as ttyUSB0 in my thinkpad...
I have an extreme headache, having to reach back into foggy memory to deal with windoz, but that's another story. I finally realized that I had installed the XP-guest in master while NOT having the VB serial support turned "on", so XP didn't bother to install ANY com ports. When I manually installed them in the running guest, they became com3 and com4, and finally worked. Very nicely, BTW. Doing the same "fix" in the Thinkpad, did NOT work, as it appears VB can not deal with a virtual copy of ttyUSB0 and hand it off to the guest as a "com" port. In fact, most attempts at booting the guest with serial enabled would result in an aborted boot of XP. I then installed the "closed-source" VB (for the USB support), and after some more head scratching, and finding the Belkin driver for XP on the Internet, I can now see the USB-232 converter directly in XP as com4. (I must leave serial support turned off, and rely on the USB and XP Belkin driver.) WAHOO. I can now use an ancient program at work to align MDS Link radios. What a pain. Tom in NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
