Virtual PC 7.0.3 in PowerMac G4 DA with OS X: Access to USB.

Dear friends, I'm trying migrate definitely from my PC to Mac. Most applications I've already switched to Mac OS ones, but some of them exist only for Windows platform.
That's the case of some engineering applications such as MPLab IDE from Microchip. I've been able to install it completelly into my Virtual PC (on Mac) and now I'd like to make it connect with the hardware USB interface. Unfortunately I haven't got any success yet!
Do you know if there's any kind of port virtualization that is not supported by applications that drive ports directly?
Refference: I'm talking about the same Virtual PC of a past issue: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2628754&tstart=0.
Thank you very much.
Best regards,
Ciro (from Brazil)

Then I think you probably nailed it with this...
Do you know if there's any kind of port virtualization that is not supported by applications that drive ports directly?

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