[Ham-Mac] has anyone tried... Mac/Doze file transfers?

[Jack Brindle]

On Jul 1, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Steve Hellyer wrote:

> Hi Jack,
>
> The Keyspan (now triplite) drivers in Mac OS X do not block use of  
> serial ports in a VM.  I use Parallels (v4) to access an older  
> Keyspan 4 port serial adaptor.  You do have to install the Keyspan  
> drivers in Windows. Same as you have to on a PC.

Cool. So then the folks who wrote these (and several more) articles  
don't know what they are talking about:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080724181208823
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=13826

And I note that both Parallels and VMWare have added named pipe  
support for Keyspan serial drivers. But I said that in a previous post.
This approach mostly works, but does break once in a while.

VirtualBox is a very good Virtual Machine system. It would be wrong to  
overlook it because it is free. It is well supported and widely used.  
I don't use Parallels of VMWare for my personal systems simply because  
I don't like paying for things when perfectly good cheaper or free  
alternatives are available. That's also why I don't use some of the  
commercial ham software available for the Mac. As a long-time Mac  
professional I tend to prefer to write my own when I find it  
interesting.

And now I will bow out of this discussion. I have other things to do...

-Jack Brindle, W6FB
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