Wine - VM serial communication

[jared]

I currently have two VMs communicating with each other. One is XP, the other is QNX. I added a serial port to each of the VMs that maps to /tmp/com_1. So each VM thinks it's communicating over its serial port. This communication works great, but the XP VM is super slow. So I thought I'd try Wine. So far it seems to work, but the communication doesn't.

How can I get this communication working with Wine? I would like the XP software to think it's communicating over com1, but have it mapped to /tmp/com_1 in linux. This way the QNX VM will receive the communication like before. Is this supported in Wine? Has anyone done something similar or have an idea?

Jared

[vitamin]

I added a serial port to each of the VMs that maps to /tmp/com_1. So each VM thinks it's communicating over its serial port. This communication works great, but the XP VM is super slow. So I thought I'd try Wine. So far it seems to work, but the communication doesn't.

At a minimum you need to create this symlink:

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ln -s /tmp/com_1 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1

[jared]

At a minimum you need to create this symlink:

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ln -s /tmp/com_1 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1

Thanks! Yes, this is what I thought would work. But it doesn't seem to be work. So I tried testing it by first getting into the cmd as

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wine cmd

Then, within cmd, I just try to send something over com1 as

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echo test > com1

It then says that "File not found". I guess it doesn't know what com1 is? What else might I have to do besides creating the link?

Jared