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Missing characters using serial port.

Posted: 14. May 2008, 15:36
by Teuniz
When I use the serial port in Windows XP, I miss characters during receiving.
Serial port params are 115K2 8N1 (no flowcontrol).

This happens when an external device is sending a continues datastream to the serial port at the highest baudrate (115K2).
It looks likes Virtualbox is not able to handle all the data in time (empty the receivebuffer).
When I use a native Linux application to receive the same data at the same baudrate without flowcontrol, no characters are missing.
So it should be a bug in VB?

Is this a common problem in VB?

Regards,

Teuniz

Posted: 15. May 2008, 11:38
by frank
Yes, this is a bug, please open a bug report.

Posted: 28. Jul 2008, 21:28
by grizzlydan
I have the same problem. I'm using Vista as host system.