jack niekerk

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Thanks for advise, i realize there is no oher way
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Thanks for advise, i realize there is no oher way

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I use Touch computers wich have usb scanner connected , and runnng on the computer a (Datalogic handscanner) &nbsp;a driver wich converst the usb to a<br />
com port<br />
In vb6 a can easily getting comport data buffer inside<br />
now the vb6 programs runs on a Vmware machine, &nbsp; when usb comport gets input , it writes it to shared drive on vmware<br />
in vb6 program i scan once a second that drive , open it, read &nbsp;it, delete it<br />
Time consuming and lots of disk access<br />
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Would there be a way, and how, to read from the vmware machine diectly the comport on the PC where the vmware machine is in use <a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2019/09_w36/1430652/usb.bmp" target="_blank" title="this is on the pc wich runs (RDP)  the vmare machine (42 KB)"><img alt="this is on the pc wich runs (RDP)  the vmare machine" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 224px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2019/09_w36/1430652/usb.bmp" /></a>
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this is on the pc wich runs (RDP)  the vmare machine

usb.bmp

I use Touch computers wich have usb scanner connected , and runnng on the computer a (Datalogic handscanner)  a driver wich converst the usb to a
com port
In vb6 a can easily getting comport data buffer inside
now the vb6 programs runs on a Vmware machine,   when usb comport gets input , it writes it to shared drive on vmware
in vb6 program i scan once a second that drive , open it, read  it, delete it
Time consuming and lots of disk access

Would there be a way, and how, to read from the vmware machine diectly the comport on the PC where the vmware machine is in use 

reading usb/ comports from a pc in vmware

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

A personal computer is a general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities and price make it useful for individuals, and is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer time-sharing models that allowed systems to be used by many people, usually at the same time. Personal computers may be connected to a local area network (LAN), either by a cable or a wireless connection, and through that to the Internet. A personal computer may be a laptop computer or a desktop computer running an operating system such as Windows, Linux or Macintosh OS.