[PLUG] com port in guest to usb in host (virtual box)

[Russell Senior]

Have you googled at all about the protocol?  You might be able to just
talk ASCII at it from Linux and get what you need.

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Denis Heidtmann
<denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to use a DMM with a serial connection.  The sw for the DMM is for
> windows. It runs under Win2k (guest) on the desktop which has a serial
> port.   Is it possible to get it to run under Win2k (guest) on the laptop
> which does not have a serial port?  I purchased a Sabrent usb to serial
> adapter that I hoped to use for this.
>
> I expect the problem is that I cannot get VB to pass the virtual com port
> data from the guest to the usb port in the host (ubuntu).  If this is
> impossible or too difficult to be practical I will pursue linux sw for the
> DMM, although I may run into a similar problem.  The DMM is Mastech MAS-344.
>
> Thanks for any clues.
>
> -Denis
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