Virtual Serial Port

[Felix001]

I have a UNIX VMware box that I need to connect to the serial connection on. I have created the following settings, (both named pipes have been named "serial"

• UNIX - client\virtual machine (near\far end)

• Windows VM - server\process (near\far end)

On the Windows VM i have tried to connect to the com port 1 via hyper terminal but nothing....

Does anyone know what im doing wrong ??

[weinstein5]

Which Vmware product are you using? Does the physical server the VMware software is running have a physical serial port?

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[Felix001]

im running ESXi and using a virtual XO and redhat box both which I have assigned serials ports...

[Erik_Zandboer]

Can you confirm the cable is working when you connect a physical machine? If you can communicatie from there, only then plug the serial cable into ESXi. That will isolate your problem. Also, make sure you set (as a first test) to NOT use RTS/CTS etc. Disable all flow control to see at least some chars coming through

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[Felix001]

im not sure you understand the problem. I am connecting to a virtual machine using another virtual machine. There are no physical connections.

[zeevik]

been trying to do the same, connect two VMs on the same host via serial connection.

no success so far.

any help would be appreciated.

[Felix001]

I resolved the issue in the end, and wrote a KB,

http://fir3net.com/VMware/ESXi/esxi-connecting-to-a-named-pipe-serial-conenction.html

please let me know if you need any other help....

[zeevik]

Thanks for the quick respoonse.

I followed the KB, but with no success yet.

should the two VMs be hosted on the same ESX host ? VI Cluster ? VI datacenter ?

Thanks,

Zeevik.

[AndreTheGiant]

To use named pipe the two VM must be in the same ESX.

Or you can have a look at this interesting post:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/28508

Andre

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