> As a matter of fact it "might" work, but the only apps that would be > able to make use of that connection would be the ones being run "inside" > the guest OS and none residing on the host OS. And the performance is > already bad enough to make using even VMware something that you soon > come to the point of using only when it's absolutely a necessity. I doubt VMware would work for this. It's my understanding that the guest OS uses devices offered by the host OS. I don't think that the guest OS has direct hardware access which is what Windows needs to use a winmodem. Direct hardware acces sounds a bit too dangerous to me. I'm pretty sure the guest OS talks to /dev/modem, /dev/eth0, etc. VMware would have to offer this as a special feature for this to work. I suspect it would take a kernel patch to make the winmodem available to the guest OS. > It's still far cheaper and easier to purchase a new modem. Agreed.
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