[ubuntu-in] virtual box issue (may be ot)

[Pawan Sood]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Pawan Sood <pawansood at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Have you checked the following ?
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>>> http://techtooltip.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/using-host-serial-port-from-guest-in-virtual-box/
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>> checked out and did the enabling but after that i get this error , guest
>> os ( which is windows 7) does not even start up.
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>> Virtual Box error
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>> Failed to start the virtual machine Vince
>> Failed to open host device 'COM3' (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND).
>> Unknown error creating VM (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)
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> am wondering if the real error is else where
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> the device i want to use is a phone (land line - as a fax front end) and
> this means connecting the phone via the phone line adapter (RJ 11) this lies
> alongside the ethernet port. So is it possible i have to enable it
> differently
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> ram
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YMMV as internal modems are difficult to configure under linux, and I
have no experience of configuring an internal modem as a fax modem
inside VM.

Are you able to use your fax modem inside your host os i.e. Ubuntu 9.10 ?

-PS


-PS