Make INPA and DIS/GT1 talk through VMs

[Jortex]

Hi everyone,
I've spent countless hours this week trying to get some diag software installed on my laptop, and I've come to some conclusions:
- my car (92 E36 325i coupe) can only talk with ADS, so I need an old version of the bmw inpa/... soft
- my laptop has Windows 10 x64 so it doesn't work on it
- I've installed it (the INPA suite) on a virtual machine with XP, it works but I can't connect to the car because it doesn't have the option to talk the 3.1 DME of my engine (M50B25 without VANOS)
- some guy on a forum somewhere said that DIS/GT1 can talk to it so i've installed it on another VM

Now i'm stuck because DIS/GT1 has to talk to ediabas, and they're both on virtual machines. I'm thinking I can get them to talk to each other through some clever editing of the hosts file or something like that but I can't figure it out, so can anyone help me? This whole thing is really hard

[billy mitchell]

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[Jortex]

Thanks for the tip, I couldn't find the seller but I don't think this can work for me. My car doesn't even have an ODBII port, so I have to use old versions of the software package. I've managed to install it but it doesn't work yet, I think I can make it work with a little tweaking.

[Jortex]

So, update, I got INPA and DIS working (kind of).
What I have now is:
- a windows 10 machine with an ADS/USB interface (it's supposed to work with USB, I don't think that's the issue)
- two seperate virtual machines, one with DIS v44 and the other with INPA 4.4
Everything is installed as it should, INPA talks to the ADS/USB interface (I see the LEDs blink), however I couldn't get any module of the car to work, I think it's so old it doesn't have a lot of modules (no ASC, no airbags, the automatic AC is the old one too)
When I do the API test in DIS it works only once in a while, and I can't do any diag (I get an error message: Communication between MoDiC and diagnostic head is disturbed)

I can't figure it out, it looks like it seems to kinda work but not all the time, does anyone have an idea why that is?

[328 Power 04]

I still have yet to see a properly working USB ADS interface. Only the original serial ADS can be confirmed working.

[David Mc]

I agree - I have yet to see a fully functional ADS/USB interface - also make sure that your anti-virus software is disabled as this can disrupt comms with your virtual machine.