vmx file with a text editor to add a serial port section. Install socat using MacPorts if you have not done so:Īdditional information about socat can be found here:ģ. Install MacPorts if you have not done so already: Ģ. \* You want to use a multi-port USB serial device and map different ports into different virtual machines.ġ. \* You don't want to install software into the Guest OSes for whatever reason \* You want to map a serial port into an unsupported Windows OS (Vista 64-bit) or other unsupported OS (DOS? FreeBSD?) There are some cases where this is useful: This note describes the way of installing the drivers into the host OS. That method is not explained any further here. That works fine but is not what I wanted. The other way is to attach the USB device into the guest and install the appropriate USB drivers in the guest. Note: If your guest OS is Windows (or in some cases, Linux) you can use a USB serial device two different ways. Guest OS sees a generic COM1 port with no drivers installed at all Keyspan Mac OS X Drivers installed in host OS Keyspan USA-19HS Adapter (probably works with other USB serial devices too) OK, I got the Keyspan USA-19HS USB serial adapter working properly with VMWare Fusion where the Guest OS only sees a generic COM1 port. In the meanwhile, I hope this helps someone
I'm not really familiar with vmware or socat so maybe there are options that will eventually make this work for me. This lets osx and my windows communicate through serial, but my device still doesn't work mine was always 3 and I set hyperterminal baud rate to 9600, so I open another terminal and type
Sudo socat -d -d /Users/maniac8/tty1a PTY: Now when I bring up hyperterm in win95, I get the serial data from the device, but the device driver still isn't noticing the data? Now I think maybe there are timing issues in the driver. (I'm not sure if ispeed and ospeed options help) I used socat to "link" my pipe to the device. Serial0.fileName = "/Users/maniac8/tty1a"ģ. I edited my /Users/maniac8/Documents/Virtual Machines/Windows 95.vmwarevm/Windows 95.vmx and changed the serial port to the following. portmon is not working in win95 on my real HW for some reason, but it is in vmware? I have some ancient serial HW that only works in win95 that I'm trying to debug/hack. It shows up as /dev/cu.PL2303-000033FD under mac osx. I have the IOGEAR GUC232A usb to serial adapter. On second thought, maybe it should be the H10k.Like a few people on the forum, I would pre-buy Fusion if serial would work. We hear a glitchy pitch shifted voice come from the computer, "I'm afraid, Dave… I'm being replaced by a hardware effects processor, the new H9000…" Pan to a computer that's running something that looks like an effects processor. Then I'm hoping Eventide takes us to the next step with a new box… H9000 anyone? I can see the ad campaign – The tune "Daisy" plays in the background. I'm really hoping to put together some tutorials using vSigX that will help people see the potential. Just made me realize that a lot of people don't really understand the power of the H8000. (Envy!) A couple of us defended the Harmonizer's honor. Sigh… (Just say no to chemotherapy unless it's targeted!)įunny, some guys on the Loopers-Delight mailing list were complaining about Fripp having five Eventides in his performance rig. A bit more than three months after the diagnosis.
I've got a lot of changes planned for the site, but my father-in-law was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this summer, so we went to visit him every weekend until he passed away Nov 28th. I could have spent that time just fixing the PC… but it makes so much noise, too! Please release VSIG and routing utility for OSX. I've gotten to the point where they are communicating, but there is clearly data corruption (sending patches to the H8000FW comes back with unexpected errors about modules that don't exist like "HEA" which I suppose to mean "HEADM" etc.) So, I've spent the last five or more hours trying to get VSIG running using VirtualBox, with windows XP as a guest on an OS X host, and USB to serial adapter from IOgear. It hurts to think about making that heavily-malfunctioning PC work again just to run VSIG. However, recently my PC started crashing (not sure why) and VSIG/routing is the *only* reason I need it anymore.
I use remote desktop to control those apps. Once I switched to Mac this summer all my software crashing and problems went away – except that I have to run VSIG and routing utility on my PC. There are plenty of folks using Macs, for Logic Pro in particular. Yes… vsig (and the routing utility!) for osx please! +++++