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Use a Keyspan USB-to-Serial adapter with Virtual Box
Authored by: olivermomo on Jul 29, '08 10:26:59AM

> This same method (or a slight variant of it) should work using Parallels
> Desktop and VMware Fusion.

The hint above is unnecessary for VMware Fusion. In VMware Fusion, just install the Windows drivers for the Keyspan USB-to-Serial adaptor and configure as you would on a PC.



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Use a Keyspan USB-to-Serial adapter with Virtual Box
Authored by: caver01 on Jul 30, '08 11:24:05PM

I would love to just run the Keyspan drivers in the guest OS (XP on my VirtualBox install) but I could never get VB to "hand over" the keyspan USB. ACTUALLY, I could never get OSX to ignore the adapter. As soon as I plugged it in, some driver would load and I could not pass it through to XP. If anyone has ideas about how to pull this off, I'd love to hear about it. According to keyspan docs I read, if you unload the mac drivers you should be able to grab it in a guest OS, but that did not work for me. VM kept saying the device was not available or something when I tried to pass the USB over to the guest OS. Very frustrating.



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