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digitlman77
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‎01-11-2010 08:03 AM

Serial Ports ESX 3.5

I would like to hook up a modem to my VM. I am running 3.5. The server is a Proliant DL580 G5, with one physical serial port on the back. When I look in ESX, I get:

  1. setserial -g -a /dev/ttyS0

/dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4

Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0

closing_wait: 3000

Flags: spd_normal skip_test

  1. setserial -g -a /dev/ttyS1

/dev/ttyS1, Line 1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3

Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0

closing_wait: 3000

Flags: spd_normal skip_test

So, it looks like it is mapping something. My VM also has these two serial ports listed. However, when I try and do a test and hook up to a Cisco rotuer serial port, I get nothing.

Is ESX actually mapping to the single real serial port on the Proliant, or are these two serial ports some kind of emulated thing?

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digitlman77
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‎01-13-2010 10:26 AM

Found another VM that had the serial port enabled. D'Oh!!!!

However, after plugging in my Courier V.Everything modem, and having the VM see it as PnP and installing it, I can't get it to work. When I do into modem props and query the modem, I get nothing. Fiddled with the DTE and other baud rates, no go.

Thoughts?

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