LPT Interface Support in Virtualbox

[q10]

Please have support for parallel port interfaces (i.e. LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, etc) in addition to support for COM (/dev/ttyS) interfaces in VirtualBox.

[drpepit]

Hi, I'm running Virtualbox on Ubuntu 8.10 (dual Opteron machine 64 bit) WIN 98 SE virtual machine hoping to use an old scanner Trust Easy Scan 9600 connected to the parallel port for which are available only WIN 98 drivers. Ubuntu has 2 devices /dev/lp0 and /dev/parport0 and I'd like to use the scanner but scanner test says nothing is connected to the parallel port. I'd be grateful if anybody can help, thanks

[maxlem]

I'd need a parallel port for light CNC machining, lots of people needs it for licensed software dongle. Please add support for paralell port

[Tomislav Galeta]

It would be great to use good old plotter with original drivers through parallel port. Please, support it. Thanks!

[jpvbox]

VirtualBox already has support for parallel ports, but is untested/unofficial i guess, you can use it but not from the regular frontend, you can try frontend like virt-manager with libvirt >= 0.6.3 to use the parallel ports in virtualBox, check this site for more info: ​http://libvirt.org/drvvbox.html. it gives the details for all devices which can be created using libvirt driver for virtualbox. the frontend for libvirt is virt-manager or ovirt which can be found at: ​http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/

[Technologov]

This bug looks like a duplicate of bug #990

-Technologov

[Frank Mehnert]

Right, this is a duplicate of #990.