VX00.SYS is a DOS device driver and has no parameters. It must be installed using the DOS_DEVICE setting for selected DOS tasks. If you desire VX00.SYS loaded for all DOS sessions, then load it in your OS/2 CONFIG.SYS. VX00.SYS is little more than a software interface to SIO, providing FOSSIL based programs with direct access to the real comm driver SIO.SYS. This direct access allows FOSSIL based programs to bypass the virtualization and the associated processor time that virtualization eats up. Your FOSSIL based programs should now require far less of the processor's time. There are no options or utilities for VX00.SYS. DO NOT use X00's XU with VX00.SYS, it will not work correctly. VX00.SYS has no buffers to make larger or smaller, it uses the same buffers that SIO.SYS uses; DOS programs or device drivers can not lock/unlock the baud rate, only SIO.SYS can do that. There should be no need to turn off the FOSSIL or to uninstall it. Try VX00.SYS before assuming that you need to do things the same old way that it was done with X00 or another FOSSIL. All of the rules have changed for DOS comm when executing under OS/2.