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No LPT port in Windows 7 virtual machines

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Mar 15, 202633274 views
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Windows 7 has MS virtual PC integrated, the VM settings don't give a parallel LPT port mapping to the physical machine. Where did it go? Has anyone else noticed this, and found a solution? Update: After much digging, I found the one and only reference to this issue, on the VPC Blog: "Parallel port …

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Fix for: No LPT port in Windows 7 virtual machines

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With Windows Virtual PC it is possible to edit the VMC parameter file (XML) and add the following lines after the serial ports: So you can have have hardware support for LPT port as before in MS Virtual PC 2007. It works fine with printers and scann…

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