vmx file with a text editor to add a serial port section.
#USB TO SERIAL HYPERTERM INSTALL#
Install socat using MacPorts if you have not done so:Īdditional information about socat can be found here:ģ. Install MacPorts if you have not done so already: Ģ. \* You want to use a multi-port USB serial device and map different ports into different virtual machines.ġ. \* You don't want to install software into the Guest OSes for whatever reason \* You want to map a serial port into an unsupported Windows OS (Vista 64-bit) or other unsupported OS (DOS? FreeBSD?) There are some cases where this is useful: This note describes the way of installing the drivers into the host OS. That method is not explained any further here. That works fine but is not what I wanted. The other way is to attach the USB device into the guest and install the appropriate USB drivers in the guest. Note: If your guest OS is Windows (or in some cases, Linux) you can use a USB serial device two different ways. Guest OS sees a generic COM1 port with no drivers installed at all
#USB TO SERIAL HYPERTERM MAC OS X#
Keyspan Mac OS X Drivers installed in host OS Keyspan USA-19HS Adapter (probably works with other USB serial devices too) OK, I got the Keyspan USA-19HS USB serial adapter working properly with VMWare Fusion where the Guest OS only sees a generic COM1 port. In the meanwhile, I hope this helps someone I'm not really familiar with vmware or socat so maybe there are options that will eventually make this work for me. This lets osx and my windows communicate through serial, but my device still doesn't work mine was always 3 and I set hyperterminal baud rate to 9600, so I open another terminal and type Sudo socat -d -d /Users/maniac8/tty1a PTY: Now when I bring up hyperterm in win95, I get the serial data from the device, but the device driver still isn't noticing the data? Now I think maybe there are timing issues in the driver. (I'm not sure if ispeed and ospeed options help) I used socat to "link" my pipe to the device. Serial0.fileName = "/Users/maniac8/tty1a"ģ. I edited my /Users/maniac8/Documents/Virtual Machines/Windows 95.vmwarevm/Windows 95.vmx and changed the serial port to the following. portmon is not working in win95 on my real HW for some reason, but it is in vmware?
I have some ancient serial HW that only works in win95 that I'm trying to debug/hack.
It shows up as /dev/cu.PL2303-000033FD under mac osx. I have the IOGEAR GUC232A usb to serial adapter. Like a few people on the forum, I would pre-buy Fusion if serial would work.