[Dx4win] DX4WIN UNder VMplayer?

[Wayne]

Hi Mel, and Group,

Well I spent a little tine this morning playing with the Windows 8 
VmWare Player and I can say DX4W will work Just fine with the MicroKeyer 
2 doing the interfacing. I can send CW, FSK RTTY, and read the radio and 
have it QSY by packet spots all in the Windows 8 using Vmware player on 
top of Windows 7 64bit. I have not done this with Linux lately but I'm 
reasonably sure it will work there also.

It just seems like a waste of resources to use Linux as the Host and 
then load up windows as a guest to run DX4W since you would have Windows 
anyway. I have dual booted in Linux when I want Linux and then go to 
Windows 7 when I want to use my Ham software. Lately to play with Linux 
I've been doing it in VMware and have been happy that way for the 
limited things I do in Linux.

Too bad  DX4W is not available  with a linux build. <G> Between DX4W and 
N1MM, those are the only things stopping me from going over to Linux 
fully. I will say  Windows 7 64bit is becoming very stable now works 
well for me.

73

Wayne  WA1PMA

On 3/11/2012 5:38 AM, Mel wrote:
> Given that CAT control is where it's most likely to fail, I wouldn't 
> give it a pass until that is tested. I have tried DX4Win and other 
> loggers in various virtual environments over the years, and the only 
> place they invariably fall down is trying to address COM ports, which 
> is not really surprising since loggers don't play nice with serial 
> communications.
>
> I haven't tried for a while, so keep us posted. It would love to 
> change the hamshack machine to Linux and use DX4Win on a virtual machine.
>
> On 2012-03-10 22:23, Wayne wrote:
>> Actually DX4W805 works just fine on Windows 8 Consumer Preview. It also
>> works in VMWare Player with a Host of Linux using a guest of  Windows 7
>> or Windows 8 CP. I have not tested CAT control but using a Microham MK2
>> with USB will make cat work. Need to try MK2 and Router 7.7.1 on Windows
>> 8 as I have not had time to try that yet.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Wayne  WA1PMA
>>
>> On 3/10/2012 6:05 PM, Byron Peebles wrote:
>>> Okay, so no one seems to be trying Windows 8 yet,
>>> but is anyone using DX4WIN on Windows under VMplayer?
>>>
>