Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Twin Cities, MN
Posts: 1683

Can it be done?

I need to test some PC to Palm conduits using Virtual PC. In doing that, will it want to sync with my Mac at the same time?

It's not a big a deal, as I'm probably going to try it anyways, but I thought it was a question worth asking.

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Registered: Jun 2000
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Posts: 216

Yes it can be done...

I've done it with Virtual PC running Win95 and using a serial cradle.

I had to turn off the Hotsync Manager on the Mac OS side. Then configure Virtual PC to use the Mac serial port that has the cradle hooked to it as COM1:. Then configure the PC Hotsync Manager to use COM1:.

I turned off all of the standard conduits except the install conduit on the PC side. This prevented all the normal data on my Visor (address, memos, to dos, etc...) from getting loaded into the PC side and just taking up space.

Also, after you quit out of Virtual PC, you might have trouble getting the Mac Hotsync working again after you turn it back on. You can either reboot the Mac, or use a utility program like Peak-A-Boo to kill the background app called "Serial Monitor". Then simply re-run "Serial Monitor". Mac Hotsyncs should work again.

Now, if you have a USB cradle, this might not work. I know that you will need Virtual PC 3, Windoze 98, and Mac OS 9.0.4 to just get Virtual PC to use the Mac's USB port. I would assume that if you turned off the Mac Hotsync Manager, then swtiched to Virtual PC, then Hotsynced, that it might work.

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: King William, Virginia USA
Posts: 70

This may help...

I'm using a Control Strip Module to toggle the HotSync Serial Port Monitor off & on - check out:

http://www.nisto.com/product/

I haven't tried it with Virtual PC (yet) but I can say that the Mac definitely won't see the Visor if you forget to toggle it on. I configured HotSync so it's not enabled at system startup.

Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Twin Cities, MN
Posts: 1683

Yikes! That's more work than I thought it'd be! Thank you both for the feedback. I'll be looking into those options...

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