On Thursday 26 April 2007 at 2:59 am, Klaus Espenlaub scribed:
> Pablo Sanchez wrote:
> > My Dell laptop has dial-up modem I'd like to access from my VM.
> >
> > Has anyone been able to get a VM to recognize a host's modem?
>
> If you think of running a Windows guest (which would have a driver
> for it) on Linux host (which often has no driver for it), then the
> answer is in 99.9% of all cases that this is not possible.
>
> Those modems are typically PCI devices, and as of now it's not
> possible to give the guest access to the PCI devices connected to
> the host. If you have such a modem connected to the USB port
> (internal or external) then the story might be different of course.

Hi Klaus,

Yes, that's exactly was my intent and thank you for saving me some 
time.

Cheers,
-- 
Pablo


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