Michael Thayer wrote: > 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
This is also important to me. All of my customers have a dot-matrix reports printer hanging off the lpt0 parallel port. I shall have a go at making it work. Not having it will certainly change any ideas I entertained about moving them onto virtualBox. -- Cheers, SDM -- a 21st Century Schizoid Man Systems Theory internet music project: <www.systemstheory.net> on MySpace: <www.myspace.com/systemstheory> on Last FM: <www.last.fm/music/Systems+Theory> get "Codetalkers" *free* at <www.mikedickson.org.uk/codetalkers> NP: nothing _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
