There should be some easy way to connect the virtual machine's serial ports to an IOKit serial port. That way software on the virtual machine could talk directly to a device connected to a USB serial adapter (like keyspan).
I would be in heaven if this could be done. I have a ham radio in my car which can only be programmed with Windows software. Having the ability to do this through Parallels would be wonderful. David, WQ2S
This is very important to me. I have a couple of Windows apps that are my primary reason for needing a VM solution, which use serial hardware. I am hoping something like this will be supported in the release version. I think that VirtualPC supported this in the past (I don't know, as I'm a new Mac convert). Linda
virtual pc support for this was spotty at best, not to mention slow. I am looking to bootcamp for this in the meantime, I have a garmin gps that needs windows for programming it, and I have the usb to serial cable. I hope that will work, now if Parellels can get it to work then that would be great but at least there is another option (but I would prefer an emulation solution if it is fast enough to keep the devices from erroring out). -ee
