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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: joeqsmith on February 22, 2021, 03:07:44 am
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Background
I have some equipment that uses the printer port. I had found a PCIe card that works with DOS up to Windows and was able to get my old tools working with it. We had a storm which damaged some of my equipment including this port. I found the same board and have run some hardware tests on it and it's now working.
Problem
I would like to run the software under Oracle VirtualBox. There is some support for printer ports but I wonder to what extent. After reading the following:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=54187 (https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=54187)
https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualbox/comments/eo7jzd/how_to_enable_parallel_port/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualbox/comments/eo7jzd/how_to_enable_parallel_port/)
All the software will be doing direct I/O calls. I am able to see the port under a virtual machine but sniffing the port, I am unable to create any activity. Has anyone here been successful in getting the printer ports to work?