On 07/25/2011 06:27 AM, William Scott wrote:
> I'm attempting to set-up a CUPS print-server in a KVM VM guest that
> uses a printer attached to the host.
>
> The host is SL6 and the guest is SL6.1 Beta.
>
> I have installed kmod-lp in both host and guest.
>
> When I print a test page the CUPS web interface shows the job then
> completed however there is no output at the printer.
>
> Setting up CUPS on the host (something I wanted to avoid) and it works fine.
>
> Below is a snippet from the guest VM XML definition.
>
> Any ideas why it wont work in a VM?
>
> *******************************************************************
>
>      <parallel type='dev'>
>        <source path='/dev/parport0'/>
>        <target port='0'/>
>      </parallel>
>
> ******************************************************************

I'm not on my machine that has a parallel port printer on it, so I could 
be way off base, but is /dev/parport0 really where you want to point it.
Setting up my parallel printer, I seem to remember having to point it to 
/dev/lp0
I can verify that tonight.
Troy
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