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Hello,

I have a built in analog modem on my laptop (windows 7) and I need to use hyperterminal on a (windows xp) vm to use the modem to call out. The most I found online was assigning the modem to a port (its COM2) in my system and then activating a serial port on the vb settings to tie to this port but when I go into the vm and open hyperterminal it is treating com2 as a serial port and not a dial out modem. Is there a way to do this so that I can dial out on the host modem from the vm?

Regards,
Obnepec

Only old type Hayes "AT" command modems can be accessed by a serial port. If that is what you have then it will be addressable (controlled) via a serial comm port on your host. For the guest to have access you need to add a comm port to your guest VM recipe (in the guest the comm port number need not be the same number the host uses) and connect that virtial comm port to the correct host comm port.

If you address the guest comm port correctly, and if the VM recipe maps to the correct host comm port, then it should work.

I find it hard to believe that there are still services available that can be accessed using those old pre-DSL modems.