At 02:36 PM 8/26/2005, Rick Glazier typed:
(IIRC) You do not "install" hardware directly into a VM in the normal way.
It is all "virtualized" in the VM, and the thing that actually makes things
work is when those "virtual translations" work their way back out
to XP where the real XP hardware is accessed... (I could be wrong...)
This may be another one of the things that got me out of the VM "space"...
After looking at the config setup again I don't believe you're correct in
this instance as VPC has access straight to the LPT port. It's not like the
networking that uses a virtual port to a physical port. Printing uses
drivers not to access the port but rather the device from the port while
networking uses the drivers to access the port & then to control the data
stream. I've only tested the networking part of what I presented here but I
have heard of others printing to 98 printers from within a VM.
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