Andrew Hardy
Member
Hello Hivemind
My wife has a legacy machine at her work which uses (or I should used) an XP desktop with a serial port to communicate with a piece of equipment. The original PC has died, and she can't get cap-ex approval for a new machine so the technicians have given her XP running in VMWare, on a Win10 PC. The PC has a serial port (!) which is configured with the same baud rate etc as the original PC, and is added to the VMWare config.
But it doesn't work (the program in the VM cannot communicate with the machine, it thinks the cable is unplugged / machine is powered down).
Does anyone have any good ideas / things to try or sources of information?
My wife has a legacy machine at her work which uses (or I should used) an XP desktop with a serial port to communicate with a piece of equipment. The original PC has died, and she can't get cap-ex approval for a new machine so the technicians have given her XP running in VMWare, on a Win10 PC. The PC has a serial port (!) which is configured with the same baud rate etc as the original PC, and is added to the VMWare config.
But it doesn't work (the program in the VM cannot communicate with the machine, it thinks the cable is unplugged / machine is powered down).
Does anyone have any good ideas / things to try or sources of information?