Need lpt help running windows 98 guest

[Killerkris14]

Hello there,

I have been working on this issue for a while now with no luck.

I have a windows 10 HOST
Windows 98 Guest
DOS Program inside the guest <--- the only thing that is really important
and I need the ability to print from that Dos program to a usb printer connected to the Win 10 host pc

I have been trying different things including the program "printfil"
and trying to forward the lpt:1 traffic to com:1 but nothing is working .

can any one walk me thru the process of getting this done?
Im fluent with windows 10 but any coding required on the Virtual box side go slow, because Im new to that aspect.

If there is any more info that you need, Please let me know

[mpack]

Howto: Enabling and Configuring Parallel (LPTx) Ports.

[JosSchaars]

Did you install Printfil on the virtual PC and do you have a Windows 98 driver for that printer?

Eventually install a 32-bit Windows version instead. If it’s only to run and print from a DOS program (not Windows 3.x/9.x): Try vDos (www.vdos.info).