Sep 2008, 17:09 Primary OS: MS Windows 10 VBox Version: PUEL Guest OSses: Mostly XP Attachments window XP 32 bit.zip (2.48 KiB) Downloaded 58 times mpack Site Moderator Posts: 37215 Joined: 4. vbox file (the copy you posted here earlier can remain as a backup). See the attachment which contains an manually edited version of your. Was that the intention? I assumed not, hence I modified both states to be correct as I understand the goal. The fact that you had taken a snapshot complicates matters - it means that should you ever revert to the earlier state, you would undo all these changes back to a non-working VM. So to be clear: the port will appear in the guest as 'COM1:' - and since it's a legacy (pre plug and play) device you might need to 'Check for New Hardware' in the guests control panel.

In any case it reinforces a false concept that the VM is using the host port, instead of simulating its own port as it actually does. But, apps might find it unexpected that COM2 exists but COM1 doesn't. There need be no relationship between the ID of the port in the host and in the guest. Second, you configured COM2 in the guest. Just like 'C:' is a drive while 'C' is a file in the current folder. The main one is that the host device name is 'COM2:', not 'COM2' - a filename without a colon is the name of an ordinary file in your current folder. Ok, you had a number of things which was incorrect. Perhaps I could get round the problem by installing a PCI card with onboard serial ports but I don't understand why a port shown in Windows 8.1 is shown as a serial port and yet is shown as LPT1 in the virtual box windows XP.Īny help would be appreciated. As I wish to use some software that only works with windows XP and needs a serial port ( the very reason why I wish to use Virtualbox) I am unable to proceed.

When I use virtualbox windows XP and go to Device manager under ' Com and LPT' the same port is shown as LPT1. If you look in device manager in Windows 8.1 it comes up as Com port 1 as it should. Plugged into a Serial port socket on my motherboard is a serial port which I use with a device I have when using Windows 8.1 and it works fine. Using Virtualbox I have installed 32 Windows XP on my 64 bit Windows 8.1 machine and it appears to be working fine except for the following. I am not sure if my following question is pertinent to this forum or a Windows Forum but am posting here incase someone knows the answer.

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