We encountered this recently - we have some monitoring software for a ride that was written in-house by a guy who no longer works for us. It was running on a Wi

We encountered this recently - we have some monitoring software for a ride that was written in-house by a guy who no longer works for us. It was running on a Windows XP machine that needed connectivity via 2 serial ports. We ended up creating a disk image then emulating the machine in Hyper-V and passing through 2 usb-based serial ports. Works like a charm!