Steven Davies-Morris wrote: > 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.
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