[Xastir] VMWare Ubuunto - Getting GPS to work on MacBookPro

[Nick]

Last weekend my hard drive failed on my Mac.  I did have it backed up, 
but Xastir won't work off the back-up.  I was using the last compiled 
version that Dana had posted a couple of years ago.

I decided to go the VMWare route and installed it last night.  Installed 
the Prolific USB driver on my Mac and am able to monitor the GPS data 
stream on the Mac.

In VMWare I enabled the USB Serial under settings.

In Xastir I set-up the interface for the GPS as /dev/cu.usbserial which 
is how I had it set-up running native on the the Mac and this didn't 
work.  I set up another Serial GPS using the default settings and it 
comes up, but there is no GPS data, i.e. no satellites or fix.

Is there a Wiki just for this version?  Hadn't really monitored it 
before.  Would love to back to a native install on OS X, but it was such 
a pain last time.

Cheers,

Nick
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