Re: [hylafax-users] Serial Port trouble with VMware

[Richard Morris <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

michael hernandez wrote:

Is anyone running their server on VMware?  I am running OpenSuse10.3 as my base OS and installed Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 - SP1 as a virtual machine with VMware.

I was able to get Hylafax 5.2.3 installed and running.  However, I am having issues with communicating with my external hardware modem ( Trendnet TFM - 560X).  I set up the virtual serial port for the modem as directed by VMware's instructions, but still unable to communicate with the modem on the virtual machine.

http://pubs.vmware.com/server1/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm

The virtual machine runs as good as the stand alone except for this "serial port" issue that I am experiencing.  Everything worked on a stand alone OS.

We are running our HylaFAX server in a virtual machine using Windows 2003 Server as the host and CentOS 5 as the guest without any problems.  I originally tried to setup the HylaFAX server with a CentOS 4.5 host on different hardware and about 50% of all faxes failed with communication problems.  We use MultiTech external serial modems so I am not sure if the communication problems had to do with the motherboard's serial ports or the host.  I am glad that we can use HylaFAX in a virtual machine as it eliminates one physical server.

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