VirtualBox, Fedora, and M$-based software

        I run Fedora 14 Linux, but own a couple of older Garmin GPSs, and
suites of map software from Garmin, Delorme, and others. Under Wine it
has long been possible to install and run some brands of software, but
not to get any of it to exchange data with the old GPSs -- which are
built to use serial ports.

        Now I have VirtualBox, with XP installed under it, and both
Garmin MapSource and TopoUS2008, as well as Delorme TopoUSA 6.0 installed
an running on the virtual XP. But I *still* can't get either of them to
recognize my serial port. (Yes, I do have one, on a purpose built new PC,
as well as on my older ones.)

        Has anyone licked this glitch yet?

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Beartooth Implacable, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
What do they know of country, who only country know?

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:51:11 -0500, BeartoothHOS wrote:


        I tried asking on one of the lists at news.grc.com; was asked
whether the virtual XP was seeing the COM (serial) port, looking under
the device manager. Turned out it thought COM1and COM2 were busy, but let
me create a COM3. Now both Delorme and the Garmin software do talk to my
old GPSs.

        Delorme and Garmin don't talk to one another. But when I found a
back road I wanted on Delorme that wasn't on Garmin, I made a route of
it, uploaded that into a GPS, and downloaded it to Garmin.

        To the woods! To the woods!
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Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
What do they know of country, who only country know?