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

[Pawan Sood]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Pawan Sood <pawansood at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>
>> wrote: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.
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>> Are you able to use your fax modem inside your host os i.e. Ubuntu 9.10 ?
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> Nope not able to use the internal "win"modem, hence was trying to figure
> this round about route. Was hoping that the guest OS would avoid this
> hassle, though it seems not.
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> Will see if i can get a linux woking modem to see what can be done
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> ram
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Ram, I don't think winmodem will work inside VM.
See the following thread in VMware Communities:-
http://communities.vmware.com/message/396541

-PS