As far as I am aware, there is no support for parallel ports in VirtualBox. I believe VMware does support it.

-Pete


On May 18, 2010, at 7:13 AM, Dario Greggio wrote:

> A friend is asking for help about this:
> 
> He needs to run Windows NT 4.0 virtualized in a "Virtualbox" (by Sun) 
> machine, and it's almost ok apart that he can't use the parallel port - 
> which is needed.
> 
> I don't know more details and I'm out of office till later, so I'm just 
> forwarding his "issue". I guess (since they build keyboards and some 
> other industrial small devices) that he is trying to test some old 
> communication device, and he's probably using a Real Mode Driver for the 
> parallel port, which could be the issue. I'll try to get more detials 
> later, but in case anyone has a clue, thank you :)
> 
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