In Virtual PC, XP Mode, CMM and Transfile Win 200

[Kelly Bellis]

Alleluia!!

In the Windows XP Mode - Windows Virtual PC, Transfile Win 200 works! ... but now, the issue at hand; establishing communications between the HP200LX and the PC. Trying all of the various communication settings to establish a connection with the serial device fail; e.g., COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4 with baud rate settings from 1200 to 57,600. All of the other settings on the real and virtual machines remain unchanged and are identical to the settings on other (read older) real machines; i.e., Data bits: 8, Parity: None, Stop bits: 1, Flow control: None. Both Device Managers, the one in the Virtual machine and the other in the real machine, show no conflicts with either of the two COM ports.

Any further thoughts or suggestions will be most certainly welcomed and very much appreciated.
(For further discussion, check out this thread on the Microsoft forum as well as on the HPLX listserv .)
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7programs/thread/2022da11-3e0d-4520-be0f-fd5ef5a01f7e?prof=required&ppud=4 and http://mail.eberl.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hplx

Though not vigorously tested, of the CMM executables that were subsequently tested and that had not previously run on the 64-bit Win 7 machine ( see earlier thread), happily, they did run while in Windows XP Mode - Windows Virtual PC. While this news may be welcome to some CMM users with new computer systems, much like the finger plugging the hole in the leaking dike, this solution obviously doesn't fully address larger issues and the inevitability of old programs that won't run on new systems.

One note of caution, Windows Virtual PC requires processors capable of hardware-assisted virtualization with AMD-V™, Intel® VT or VIA® VT turned on in the BIOS. To find out if your system is suited or not, check out this detection tool. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0ee2a17f-8538-4619-8d1c-05d27e11adb2&displaylang=en

Kind regards,

Kelly

V. Kelly Bellis, PLS 2099
Horizon Surveying Company, Inc.
17 Union Street
Ellsworth, ME 04605
207.667.6912