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Serial port in VSphere

Jun 11, 2009 2:50 AM

Click to view serblander's profile Lurker serblander 2 posts since
Nov 29, 2008

Hi,

Is it possible to connect physical serial port to VM?

I see that there is such option in editing Vm, but, I can´t select serial port output to ˝Use physical serial port on host˝ option.
I have Fujitsu RX300 S4 server.

The reason why I need serial port is for external modem, that we use for fax purposes in share point portal.

Thanks in advance

Reply Re: Serial port in VSphere Jun 11, 2009 2:55 AM
Click to view EDV-COMPAS's profile Enthusiast EDV-COMPAS 89 posts since
May 31, 2005

hi,

the use of host serial ports is available if you use ESX, but not in ESXi.

are you realy using ESX?


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Reply Re: Serial port in VSphere Jun 17, 2009 5:15 AM
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Click to view Texiwill's profile Guru Texiwill 10,056 posts since
Jan 13, 2004 Moderator
Hello,

Moved to Virtual Machine and Guest OS forum.


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