Linux Friendly Vag-com

I’ve obtained a REAL vag-com cable… no more second rate testing for me :D. I must say initially I was disappointed that I getting the serial version but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Vag-com installed seamlessly with wine on my nix box. I was thinking about running it through my windows VM but I continuously get COM errors… so i started searching for ways on how run vag from linux. Pallad at vwvortex had a little write up on HOW-TO Install VAG-COM in Ubuntu Linux using Wine which i decided to follow… after which I was on my way gathering info on my VW in no time.