>It appears that I have 2 problems that I thought may be related (due to the fact that both computers are dual core). However, for now, I would like to concentrate on the laptop issue, as this is the hardest to work around and prevents me from using the laptop as it should be used.
>The application that I am trying to run communicates via the serial port to an external industrial controller. On the old laptop, all worked just fine. On the new laptop, when I start the application, it tries to connect to the device via the serial port. I can see the little light flicker in the serial port icon on the VM window, but the software just does not move forward. After about an hour, I guess it gives up and opens to the application menu (telling me that the device is not online). However, response is very slow (minutes to respond to even a change in menu option). I think since it was told to be on-line, it is constantly trying to communciate with the device and therefore timing out.
>What I really don't understand is that this was working just fine on the old laptop. I copied the entire guest OS directory to my new machine and I thought that it would run the same way. I did check the serial port on the host and it does work. Attached is the vwmare.log from the NT guest.
I created a new VM and installed WIndows NT 4.0 SP3 on it. I still have the same problem. The application does not run properly and it does not communicate via the serial port. Also, ntvdm hogs system resources when the application runs (about 90%).
Was your old laptop running the same version of VMware Workstation as your new laptop? Same host Operating Sytem and patch levels? Same AntiVirus? What brand/model is your old laptop? What brand/model is your new laptop?
Are you using the same cables to connect to your external controller (just wondering if maybe the cables/connectors are going bad)?
