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The problem with this driver is that once installed, Fusion can't seem to get access to the adapter when it needs to. The open-source driver osx-pl2303 (at 0.3.1) does recognize the Radio Shack adapter cable and does allow it to work natively under OSX. The generic OSX driver on the Prolific website (v1.2.1r2) won't recognize it because Radio Shack uses their own USB Vendor/Product IDs in their versionī.

Although it uses a standard PL-2303 chipset, neither of the following work (as of the date of this post):Ī.

Radio Shack only includes Windows drivers with this adapter.Ģ. The issue is that currently there are no OSX drivers available for this adapter that work properly alongside Fusion.ġ. However, if you expect to use it natively under OSX at times, then you may want to look elsewhere. Just plug in the adapter and let the guest VMs work with it. If you ONLY need to use it from within a Fusion VM, then no problem - don't install anything on OSX itself. Please read that again before you consider purchasing this cable. I can also confirm that it works fine with OpenBSD 4.2 (/dev/ttyU0) There's a good chance that any other Linux/*BSD distro that recognizes the Prolific PL-2303 chipset may work also. However, I can confirm that it works fine with a Win2k VM which installs it under COM3 and supports speeds up to 115kbps. There is another slightly more expensive version (cat#26-949) that supposedly does work with Vista, but I have no firsthand info on this. It includes drivers for Win 9x/ME/2k/XP, but not Vista. If you live in the U.S., there's probably one nearby. For personal reasons I'm not that fond of Radio Shack, but the fact is that their stores are in shopping malls all over the place.

This adapter cable (cat#26-183) is readily available in Radio Shack stores for around $30(US). Note that this adapter comes with one important caveat (below).

it doesn't appear to support anything about 115kbps), however I thought I'd attach some info to this post since anyone searching the forum for a RS-232/serial solution would probably come across this thread. NOTE: The Radio Shack adapter I'm about to describe does NOT satisfy the orig.