This may be a silly question, but I can't find an answer from Google and I've not yet used Xen.
My problem is that I want to make up some home made printed circuits using a very old pen plotter that I've adapted to do the job.
The CAD software I use, which is called Vutrax, does the job with Windows 98 but not XP because it needs direct access to the control registers of the serial port, and I've no longer got a machine running 98.
If I was to build a new machine with one of the new processors that can do proper virtualisation, would I be able to give a 98SE VM full access to the serial port control registers to enable me to run the plotter?
Dave F
Hi there,
With Fully Virtualisation, it should work fine what I know of, so just give it a try. ;)
Greetings, Jim.
This may be a silly question, but I can't find an answer from Google and I've not yet used Xen.
My problem is that I want to make up some home made printed circuits using a very old pen plotter that I've adapted to do the job.
The CAD software I use, which is called Vutrax, does the job with Windows 98 but not XP because it needs direct access to the control registers of the serial port, and I've no longer got a machine running 98.
If I was to build a new machine with one of the new processors that can do proper virtualisation, would I be able to give a 98SE VM full access to the serial port control registers to enable me to run the plotter?
Dave F
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On Tue, 1 May 2007 12:33:22 +0200 (CEST) "Jim van Wel" jim@coolzero.info wrote:
Hi there,
With Fully Virtualisation, it should work fine what I know of, so just give it a try. ;)
It depends how you set it up and how good the qemu layer handling the serial work is. It also critically depends upon whether they do busy precise timing loops - those won't virtualise and there is hardware out there which bitbangs busses which simply doesn't work in a virtualised environment where it can get scheduled against other code.
Hi there,
Well thanks for clearing that up! Didn't know that.
Greetings, Jim
On Tue, 1 May 2007 12:33:22 +0200 (CEST) "Jim van Wel" jim@coolzero.info wrote:
Hi there,
With Fully Virtualisation, it should work fine what I know of, so just give it a try. ;)
It depends how you set it up and how good the qemu layer handling the serial work is. It also critically depends upon whether they do busy precise timing loops - those won't virtualise and there is hardware out there which bitbangs busses which simply doesn't work in a virtualised environment where it can get scheduled against other code.
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 03:12, David Fletcher wrote:
This may be a silly question, but I can't find an answer from Google and I've not yet used Xen.
My problem is that I want to make up some home made printed circuits using a very old pen plotter that I've adapted to do the job.
The CAD software I use, which is called Vutrax, does the job with Windows 98 but not XP because it needs direct access to the control registers of the serial port, and I've no longer got a machine running 98.
If I was to build a new machine with one of the new processors that can do proper virtualisation, would I be able to give a 98SE VM full access to the serial port control registers to enable me to run the plotter?
Dave F
have you tried the program under FC using wine? I got quite a few old windows apps to work with no effort at all.
Dave
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