How to enable the RS232 and USB communication on the guest os of vmware ESXi 4.0

[jonesliu]

I have installed some software in the guest OS(redhat 5.0) of vmware , it will communicate with device via RS232 or USB

but the communicate fail.

The vmware tools is installed.

I try to edit the vmware attribute , add the com port and USB, but it still doesn`t take effect

Is the RS232 or USB available on the guest OS?

How to enable RS232 and USB??

[jonesliu]

IS the RS232 not available on the guestOS

[w6vms]

Did you add a serial port and USB device to the VM when you created it?

-jav

[DSTAVERT · Accepted solution]

USB and serial are not available in a guest. There are network based IP serial and IP usb devices which can be used.

[talondsm]

I've been using USB over Ethernet (http://www.kernelpro.com) for months now - no issues, works fine on x64 2003/2008 R2 even. They have a serial version too. Finnaly ditched the Digi AnywhereUSB - which you can only have one system using it at a time. This program lets you specify which USB device connects to what server, and handles future connections automatically.

[jonesliu]

Thank you very much, that to say the physical device attached to server is not available on the guest os

I need to recur to the other device (eg: USB Over Ethernet or Advanced Virtual COM Port ) based on ethernet network