Hi all,

I'm trying to add a serial port as a named pipe for a kernel debuging
setup, but this option is missing (see attached screenshot1). There are
however options to add the serial port as socket/file.

The host is 64 bit Fedora 10 running 2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.x86_64.
Workstation is 6.5.2 build-156735. I found that the named pipe option is missing irrespective of the OS type of the guest.

I had posted this thread last week, -

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1267552

and marked it answered since as soon as I put in the following options in the .vmx file, a serial port option came up (see screenshot2)-

serial0.present = "TRUE"
serial0.fileType = "pipe"
serial0.fileName = "/tmp/com_1"

I realized that I would have to have one VM as the serial port server and other as client. So added the option -

serial0.pipe.endPoint = "server"

However this option this is breaking the vm configs (can't start VM till I remove this line).

Please see the attached screenshot3 of 6.5.2 on Windows and you will see that it has a different and complete looking serial port setting. One can easily set a VM as a server/client side of the serial connection on Windows.

I would really really appreciate if anyone can give me pointers as to why this difference between Linux and Windows and how to get the Windows kind of settings in Linux for the serial ports ?

My main goal of purchasing Workstation was to do kernel debugging using the serial ports, and now I'm totally crippled because of this. Any pointers and suggestions are greatly welcome.

Many thanks,

HS