STEP 5 on a XP in VMware

Hi all,

just wondering since you are using STEP 5 on a XP guest in VMware, how do you connect to a PLC?

Are you connected via  Ethernet and a monkey tail on the PLC, linking Ethernet card to PG port on the CPU?

This works fine on our phycical XP PC's, but not in the virtual enviroment.

On the guests and phycical machines I have STEP5 7.23 HF1 and Simatic Net 2008+SP2.

Simatic Net 2008 SP2 (v.7.1) does not support VMware, Simatic Net 8.2 does support VM but not Windows XP, so its not possible to match.

The problem is, on a XP guest im not able to select the network card in Simatic Net configuration, proberly since the non VMware support.

Running STEP5 issen't much fun, if you can't get online :)

Best regards

Lars

Denmark.

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Split from SIMATIC STEP 5 / ST V7.23 with VMware Workstation 11.

Navnag

 

IBN-Service

Try to use an USB - TTY adaptor!

Hello Jürgen

Can you recommend any Model ?

Thanks

Navnag

There are a lot of them, one example:

http://www.ibhsoftec.com/epages/63444704.sf/en_GB/?ViewObjectPath=%2FShops%2F63444704%2FProducts%2F20220

Hi, and thank you for your great suggestion.

This will most likely do fine on a laptop, but what Im trying is to get at up and running is in a server enviroment with multible VMware hosts, and reach multible STEP5 PLCs over our ethernet.

My bad, I haven't replied erleyer, I thought I got an email when there were new posts in a thread :)

I'll better look into settings and see if its possible.

Best regards

Lars