[Xastir] xastir VM woes

[Jason Winningham]

On Mar 9, 2007, at 4:27 PM, I wrote:

> I'm having issues running xastir in a VMware vm that I suspect are  
> virtual machine-host machine issues.
>
> I've got everything loaded and going, including handing control of  
> a USB/rs232 adapter to the guest OS.  The extremely strange (and  
> frustrating) thing is that the guest machine can write to the D7  
> over the usb/rs232 adapter, but data from the D7 never gets back to  
> xastir.  I can turn off the vm and fire up hyperterm and talk back  
> and forth just fine, so it's not a cabling or hardware issue.


Just in case someone else runs up on this, I applied this trick:

http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/ 
HowTo:VMware#Working_around_broken_autodetection_of_serial_ports

and it solved my problems.  The systems in question are two Dell  
laptops with built-in modems and two different (Keyspan and Prolific)  
USB/rs232 adapters, both exhibiting the same broken behavior before  
applying the workaround.

-Jason
kg4wsv