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Solaris 10 U4 Virtual Machines Might Not Properly Configure Virtual Parallel Port (1003006)

Details

When you add a virtual parallel port to a vritual machine running Solaris 10 U4, the guest operating system might not correctly initialize the device. If the device is not initialized, you cannot transfer data using the parallel port.

Solution

Use the following procedure to add a virtual parallel port to a virtual machine running Solaris 10 U4:
  1. From the command line in the virtual machine, execute the following commands:
    1. update_drv -a -i 'lp' ecpp
    2. touch /reconfigure
    3. reboot
  2. After the virtual machine reboots, edit the file /kernel/drv/ecpp.conf , and add the line:
    name="lp" parent="/isa" interrupts=5 reg=1,0x378,0x8;
  3. Execute the following commands:
    1. update_drv ecpp
    2. touch /reconfigure
    3. reboot
  4. As the virtual machine reboots, enter the BIOS configuration screen.
  5. Choose BIOS > Advanced > I/O Device Configuration and set the following options:
    1. Set Parallel Port to [Auto].
    2. Set Mode to [EPP].
  6. Power off the virtual machine, and use the Add Hardware wizard in the VI Client to add a parallel port connected to an output file on the ESX Server host.
  7. Restart the virtual machine and execute the following commands from the command line:
    1. update_drv ecpp
    2. touch /reconfigure
    3. reboot

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