[ltp] VMware 4.0 serial port problem

[Robert Hajime Lanning]

I have a 600x.  Slackware 9.0 (Kernel 2.4.21)

I did not test the VMWare serial port under 2.4.20.

You may need to start with a new VM image for VMware 4.0.  Remember, you
are running the old bios and old VMWare guest OS drivers and an old
VM image in a new VM.  In going from version 2 to version 3 there were
a bunch of warnings of issues in doing that.

(As I do not have anything to connect my real serial port to, my test was
to the Lucent winmodem.  Though the AT commands worked at 115200bps.)

My suggestion would be to try installing W2k in a new VM created with
VMWare 4.0, then test the serial port functionality in that VM.

<quote who="Kang Tin LAI">
> Hi,
>
> My system:
>
> 600E
> kernel 2.4.20 (slackware 9.0)
> vmware 3.2 w2k guest
>
> The serial port was working fine from w2k guest.
>
>
>
> After vmware upgraded to 4.0, connected a modem to serial port, and open
> the
> Hyperterminal, set speed to 2400 and send an AT command, AT&V for example,
> OK,
> change speed to 4800, OK but not very stable. For higher speed, for
> example
> 9600, totally not working, an overrun phenomenon found. I have tried to
> change
> the flow control, but no improvement. I have to spend time to revert to
> vmware
> 3.2, then OK, including 115200. Under linux, serial port is working fine
> with seyon.
>
> Anybody here with different system and experienced the same problem? Is it
> a bug
> of vmware or just my system's problem.
>
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