Running Dos program in VMWare/Windows XP environment

My wife's PC bit the dust, and we're trying to determine if Mac could be a solution. The thought is to load VMware Fusion on a new Mac (and load XP). The dos application needs to be able to connect to handheld barcode scanner device (on Com 1 or Com 2), and be able to print to a printer on LPT!. I know we can buy RS232 serial PCIe cards, and would imagine could find a parallel port (LPT1), but haven't checked. My concern is the mapping of the I/O running under VMWare would not allow the ports to look like Com 1 and LPT1 to the Dos Application.
Anyone have any thoughts whether this could be a solution, or are we better off looking for a Non Mac solutions.

benc1 wrote:
Are you sure it only supports 1+2? Reason I ask is I thought the windows app I used had that limitation but in reality it only showed 1+2 as on my old pc those were the only com ports available. When I installed it under vmware with the adaptor connected it only showed 3+4.
To answer the question though - Windows device manager, ports, select prolific usb, properties, advanced, then you can specify com port. (I think that's right - doing this from memory as not near the mac atm!). I'm the other side of the pond so alas I can't recommend a supplier. When I researched this the advice I got was just get one with a prolific chipset. It just worked. Hopefully if you go this route you will find the same.
Thanks for the tip. This particular Dos software only knows how to be configured to Com 1 (address 0x3F8) or Com 2 (0x2F8), but if between VMware and Windows they get remapped there may be a chance. I saw in the FAQs (below) you can assign it to Com 1 or 2. The cost of the adapter you talked about is relatively cheap, so worth trying.
http://sewelldirect.com/usbtoserial_questions.asp
Thanks again.

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