12 Sep 16 12:47, you wrote to me:

 JM>>> As I'm forced to run my BBS in a emulated Amiga for time being, I'm
 JM>>> wondering if there is any way to have the Amiga access the psysical
 JM>>> RS-232-port on the PC that's running Ubuntu and FS-UAE.

 ml>> it is generally up to the settings of the VM as to whether or not
 ml>> access to real hardware is provided... if your VM software has some
 ml>> place where you can set up the virtual machine to access real hard
 ml>> drives, set the amount of memory, how many CPUs and such, you may be
 ml>> able to "add new hardware" pointing to the physical
serial port on
 ml>> the physical machine /if/ that serial port is recognised by the
 ml>> physical machine's configuration and its OS sees it...

 JM> It's FS-UAE and I am yet to find any setting for RS-232.  I used to
 JM> run the BBS with Amiga Forever, which supports RS-232 but had other
 JM> issues such as the emulated Amiga loosing it's network connection
 JM> after a few hours.

i've given all i can... i'm used to QEMU/KVM and how it operates in my
installation... i think there is actually a QEMU-UAE module but i've not
looked for it or attempted to do anything Amiga oriented in a virtual
machine...

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