I'm in ESXi (Server 3i; v 3.5.0) trying to connect a Win2003server VM to a Unix VM across a virtual serial cable - no physical serial ports involved.

It's not working.

In Win2003 I'm using TeraTerm and Putty as my serial clients

I've got the Win2003 VM serial port set up as Near-end:client; Far-end:a virtual machine; named-pipe:\\.\pipe\com1

I've got the Unix VM serial port set up as Near-end:server; Far-end:a virtual machine; named-pipe:\tmp\com1 (the backslashes were the only syntax that would permit this VM to power-on!)

I'm not getting any serial-console output at the Windows serial client... In a physical machine I would confirm the Unix BIOS is actually redirecting to it's serial port - but I don't know what the equivalent setting is in a VM Unix box. And, I don't know how to tell the two VM systems to use the same named-pipe within the ESX environment.

I've read the KB articles and the manuals without much success.

Any pointers? All help much appreciated!

Thanks.
Todd