Hello David,

As far as I know, the right commands to enable the parallel port are

$ VBoxManage setextradata <machine name>
"VBoxInternal/Devices/parallel/0/LUN#0/Driver" "HostParallel"

and

$ VBoxManage setextradata <machine name>
"VBoxInternal/Devices/parallel/0/LUN#0/Config/DevicePath" "/dev/parport0"

where you can replace "/dev/parport0" with the device node of your
parallel port.  I don't know how high the chances are though that it
will work, unless you are prepared to do some fixing yourself.

Regards,

Michael

David Wheeler wrote:
> I also need to access the parallel port from a Windows XP guest on an
> Ubuntu host.  The reason to run Windows is to use some software that
> isn't available on Linux and one of the apps needs access to the
> parallel port.  It is only to send a signal pulse using two pins, so any
> basic access would likely be fine.
> 
> cheers,
> David

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