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virtual PC to emulate serial and parallel ports

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 03/08/2008
From: johnharvey
Message:

Hi,
I am a scientist purchasing a new tablet PC that runs Vista. We have a piece
of scientific hardware, a Biorad Icycler that has software that will work
only with XP and installs drivers for the serial and parallel ports (I
believe that this is where the incompatibility with Vista lies). I do not
want to actually run the instrument with the tablet, but I want to install a
copy of the software for standalone data analysis. When installing the
program you have the option to select a standalone configuration, but the
drivers are still installed. They are just never used in this mode. I need
this so that data can be copied into Excel. I would also like to copy
portions of the program screen into OneNote. Will virtual PC support this
functionality without effecting the operation of Vista? Thank you for your
help.

--John

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Re: virtual PC to emulate serial and parallel ports

Sent: 03/08/2008
From: Robert Comer <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

From your description it sure sounds like it would, though there may
be a problem with input into the VM -- if you have a real keyboard on
the tablet or attach a USB one, it should be good, but the VM doesn't
work real well with just the pen...

--
Bob Comer

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 13:45:01 -0800, johnharvey
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

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>Hi,
>I am a scientist purchasing a new tablet PC that runs Vista. We have a piece
>of scientific hardware, a Biorad Icycler that has software that will work
>only with XP and installs drivers for the serial and parallel ports (I
>believe that this is where the incompatibility with Vista lies). I do not
>want to actually run the instrument with the tablet, but I want to install a
>copy of the software for standalone data analysis. When installing the
>program you have the option to select a standalone configuration, but the
>drivers are still installed. They are just never used in this mode. I need
>this so that data can be copied into Excel. I would also like to copy
>portions of the program screen into OneNote. Will virtual PC support this
>functionality without effecting the operation of Vista? Thank you for your
>help.
>
>--John

Re: virtual PC to emulate serial and parallel ports

Sent: 03/08/2008
From: "Mark Rae [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

"johnharvey" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

It's almost impossible to say without knowing what the hardware is, but VPC
emulates standard parallel and serial ports so I'd say there's a fair chance
that it will work unless the app is doing anything particularly unusual with
the ports.

At the risk of sounding trite, why don't you just try it...?

--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

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> Will virtual PC support this functionality without effecting the operation
> of Vista?

Re: virtual PC to emulate serial and parallel ports

Sent: 03/09/2008
From: Bo Berglund <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 13:45:01 -0800, johnharvey
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

VPC2004/2007 passes through up to two serial porst to the guest
system. Depending on the way the serial port is handled in the guest
you might not get it working with VPC2007, however. There is a bug
that never got corrected in the serial port emulation for VPC2007. :-(
But if you use VPC2004 instead this will work. But then of course it
is *not* possible to have Vista as the *host* system (Vista was the
reason MS upgraded VPC to VPC2007).

Furthermore, in order to use the parallel port pass-through you MUST
have a real parallel port on the host! It is *not* possible to use the
USB connected printer port adapters because these are just fancy
printer drivers. Most certainly your package uses the printer port as
a way to have digital I/O to the data collection equipment (like my
company does) and in that situation USB printer ports are totally
unusable.

There may be another use for the printer port and this is in order to
handle software protection devices (dongles). This also does not work
unless you have a *real* printer port on the host.

Been there done that....

Bo Berglund

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