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You are unable to use parallel ports on a PCI card with virtual machines in VMware Workstation and VMware Player.You cannot use a device attached to a parallel port on a PCI card.You see one of these errors: Virtual device parallel0 will start disconnected.Cannot open VMparport driver for LPT1: The operation completed successfully. Failed to connect virtual device Parallel0.
VMware Workstation and VMware Player do not support PCI parallel port cards. Therefore, a parallel port on a PCI card cannot be mapped to a Guest operating system running in a virtual machine.
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