On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 06:46:14PM +0200, Klaus Espenlaub wrote: > The last line is definitely not from the manual. It is incorrect in > several ways. If you want to configure VBox serial line code to be a > client for an already running socket server, use > > VBoxManage setextradata debian > "VBoxInternal/Devices/serial/0/LUN#0/AttachedDriver/Config/IsServer" 0
Yes, the "IsClient" in the last line isn't from the manual. Since the manual says in order to configure the pipe as a server you'd type "IsServer", I assumed that in order to configure the pipe, you'd type "IsClient". I'll try the correct way, and post back if I still am having problems. > If converting to standard windows control is the only way to get it to > work with such screen readers, then it's probably nothing that will > happen in the short to medium term. The VirtualBox GUI is based on the > Qt library (version 3) for portability reasons. The very same GUI source > code is used for Windows, Linux, MacOS X and soon other OSes like > Solaris and OS/2. It is too much effort to implement a native GUI on > each of those platforms. If it's possible to make Qt3 work better with > screen readers, then our GUI developers may find some time to implement > the necessary changes eventually - but they need information on that. Thanks, I will pass your comments on to Gw Micro support, and see what they have to say on the matter. > There is absolutely no technical reason for not providing host serial > port support. It's just that we don't have time to do it. The existing > code would need a few minor changes for processing the communication > parameters and a new backend (very similar to the already existing local > domain socket one) would need to be added. We're happily accepting > contributions, and such small things really shouldn't be hard for anyone > capable of writing code accessing the serial port on Windows without > additional libraries. A bonus would of course be a Linux version of the > code, too. Ok. From reading some posts in the forums on serial port access, I got the impression that it would be difficult to implement access to host serial ports, due to technical reasons. I may have a look at the serial code in the opensource version of virtualbox, and if I feel I have a good enough grasp on how the code currently does what it does, I'll see what I could do to implement physical serial port access on windows and/or linux. Greg -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
