[Ham-Mac] VirtualBox and USB-to-Serial adapter

[Hal Mueller]

I "solved" this once with VMWare by using a converter that had no Mac driver. Thus the Mac never had a chance to grab the serial device. 

There's also a way to uninstall the Keyspan driver and then plug in the Keyspan. That struck me as ugly. Don't know if it works under Lion either. 

I wonder...what happens if you plug in the Keyspan while Virtual Bix is foremost?

Hal
N3YX


On Aug 15, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Bill Howell <bhowell at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:

> I'm running an iMac with 10.6. I recently installed VirtualBox 4.1 running XP.
> What I'd like to do is have VB talk to my Uniden scanner (which requires a serial connection).
> The USB-to-Serial device is a Keyspan USA-19HS.
> The problem is the Mac won't 'release' the Keyspan to the PC side (even though there are no Keyspan drivers on the Mac).
> The PC says it can't mount the Keyspan because it's 'in use' or some such language (The Keyspan is visible in the Mac System Profiler).
> I've Googled the heck out of the VB/Keyspan issue and apparently there's no fix, short of
> *maybe* some third-party software and some terminal chops.
> 
> I could probably do Boot Camp to resolve this, but I'd rather not, if anyone out there happens to have found a USB-to-Serial adapter that happens to play well with VB.
> 
> thanks,
> Bill N5AB
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