serial port paths for Vbox/XP for GPSs

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, 1 May 2011 21:13:33 +0000 (UTC)
BeartoothHOS <beartooth at comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> 	I'm in process of installing XP under VirtualBox on Fedora 14 
> Linux, after which I'll install MapSource, TopoUS2008, and others under 
> XP, hoping to be able to get my Etrexes and Rinos to talk to the 
> software. I do have a physical serial port on the machine; but I don't 
> see what path to set Com1 and Com2 to. Anyone know?

The Linux serial PC built-in style ports are /dev/ttyS0/1/2/3/... etc

The kernel tries to make sure ttyS0..S3 match up with the expected
"COM1..COM4" as DOS would describe them.