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

[John Merrill]

Plug in the Keyspan after Virtual Box/XP is up and running.

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Hal Mueller <hal at seanet.com> wrote:

> 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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