30 Jan
2016
30 Jan
'16
11:28 a.m.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016, mark at markesystems.com wrote:
From: "js at cimmeri.com" <js at
cimmeri.com>
I haven't attempted this yet, but a while back I ran across a thread
saying you could use parallel port passthrough in a limited fashion:
<https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=54187>
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Eric Christopherson
The one thing I'm not seeing mentioned
in re VirtualBox is that what if you
have a legacy Win 98SE system with
hardware in it, like a GPIB card or
sound card? Or if you have software
that talks to hardware via serial or
parallel ports eg. eprom burners, Zector
ZVG vector graphic driver for MAME, etc.
Yup, that's true. VirtualBox will provide one or two com ports (optionally
mapped to the real host ports, or just pipes to other virtual machines), but
it doesn't support the parallel port. And as you've pointed out, any
specialized hardware won't work at all (because the backplane doesn't really
exist).