Jim, I'm not quite understanding why VMWare would be useless in this instance.
If you are using a serial USB device, you get to choose whether to present that device to the host OS (the mac) or to the guest OS (the instance of windows in the VM). Simply load up your drivers in the instance of windows running in your VM, choose to present this device to the guest OS (the VM) and it should work FB. I used to do this all the time and it has always worked perfectly. Now that said, I've never used the K144XV application so I don't know about that, but I do know about VMware and when the drivers are loaded and the USB serial port is presented to the VM, it's a serial port like any other. 73 & Aloha, Dave, AH6TD On Jul 31, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Jim Bennett wrote: > Well, as JC Fogerty said in his "Stuck in Lodi Again" tune: things got tough, > then things got worse… > > It turns out that VMWARE Fusion is worthless for trying to run the K144XV > application under Win/XP. They send "serial port" data to a file, instead of > to the USB bus. Wonderful. > > Two folks recommended using the $59 program "CrossOver" from CodeWeavers. > They've got a 14 day free trial, so I thought I give it a shot. Installed > their program and then installed the K144XV DOS utility. But, now I'm stuck - > no idea how to define a COM port for this thing to use. The K3, P3, and > KPA500 Utilities work fine with the Elecraft Serial-->USB cable, so I know > I've got a working connection. Anyone know how to do this? > > Wayne / Eric / Gary: Any progress getting the Mac version of the K144XV > utility going to complement the other products? > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
