On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 01:50:53PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 07:20:51AM -0400, stan wrote: > > Under Ubuntu this device shows up as /dev/ttyUSB0. I need to make this > > serial port be avaialbel to XP runiing as a VM. > > > > In the VB GUI setup screen, I have enabled serail port 1 set the prt number > > to comm1, set the port Mode to host device, and set the port file path to > > /dev/ttyUSB0. When I start the software that needs the serial port on the > > XP instnace, it does not present me with any valid serial port choices. > > > > Any sugestions as to how to troubleshoot what the problem is here? > > If I recall right, you need to go into control panel in xp, and run > the add new hardware wizard. If I keep recalling right, it should just > find a new com port once you do that, but I may be wrong.
Thanks. > > If I may, why are you doing things the long way round (I.E. why not > just present the usb device to the xp guest directly)? > Mayve that would be a better idea, -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
