At 11:07 AM 9/7/2011, James Collins wrote: >I am wondering how to set up my device in virtualbox to work with >freedos? I have looked in the settings for my guest os, freedos. I >see under ports a section on serial ports, and also a section on >USB. But I don't know which would relate to my external speech synthesizer. > >I did click on the little USB icon when freedos was running and my >usb2serial device was listed but when I checked it a virtualbox >window popped up saying something about an error. > >I think it referred to ioctl but I can get more info on the exact error. > >Anyway, I just wondered if anyone had any info or help on getting my >speech synthesizer working?
That is rather a problem with VirtualBox (or pretty much any VM host software). VB has to properly translate the USB (or in this case USB2serial) device into a true serial port within it's environment. FreeDOS or any other client OS within that VM simply won't know anything about that device in the first place. Had similar issues while getting a parallel port printer in DOSBOX working on Windows 7 Home Premium/64Bit. DOSBOX just would not provide a proper "translation" from the Windows 7 parallel port device to a plain DOS parallel port within DOSBox. Different host OS, different VM but same general problem... Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Using storage to extend the benefits of virtualization and iSCSI Virtualization increases hardware utilization and delivers a new level of agility. Learn what those decisions are and how to modernize your storage and backup environments for virtualization. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51434361/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
