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5 Replies Last post: Nov 17, 2009 1:37 AM by ditro2001

Serial port missing with linked clones and Wyse thin clients posted: Nov 6, 2009 4:29 PM

pharmer

15 posts since
Jul 23, 2007

We are using Wyse V10L with VMware View 3.1 and linked clones

The master image has serial ports and when connecting to the master via RDP from a Wyse client - serial ports are OK

However, any clone created from the master show no serial ports in device manager

I have tried multiple masters to eliminate any issue with a single build (XP SP3)

Is there no support for serial ports in a linked clone?

Anyone know?

Re: Serial port missing with linked clones and Wyse thin clients

1. Nov 7, 2009 6:35 PM

in response to: pharmer

pharmer

15 posts since
Jul 23, 2007

Solved the issue.

The bios of the master XP machine had serial ports set enabled and auto - this works fine for this image only.

When cloned by composer however the ports in the linked clone go "missing" even though the bios for the clone still says ports are enabled and auto

The solution is to set the master to enabled and manual IRQ for serial ports, then the linked clones have the same settings and ports appear under XPs device manager