I have installed VMware Player on my computer to play Windows 98 apps which are not playing on Windows XP computer. I am having some old hardware which are not running on supported on Windows XP. Items which are attached to the Host computers Com1 port. I am looking to give me Win98 VM appliance to access the winmodem which was installed on Windows XP host computer. I tried lots of method but I am sure about the thing there was something which was happened really bad.
Host Configuration:
COM1 is connected with external peripheral, Internal 'winmodem' was assigned to COM2 in host OS. Host is not having internet access at that particular time.P4 2.8 Ghz Processor w/HT
300Gb Maxtor SATA HD
2.5Gb DDR RAM
Windows XP Pro w/SP3
LPT1: & COM1: are enabled in BIOS, VMware Player version 3.0.1
VMware Appliance Configuration
LPT1, COM1 & COM2 were enabled in virtual' BIOS.
2 serial port devices were added in the VM settings.
Virtual Printer was not installed on your computer.
VMware Tools and "WinPre2K were installed without having any issue.
As per theory Windows 98 hardware manage should work with VM's serial devices through the physical ports but it did not seems to working at all. Let me know if you are having any idea on the same.
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