map a physical serial port on esx3.5i

[daysleeper]

Hi to all,

i have installed esx3.5i on a server and i have migrated a win2003 standard edition to this server, all is working but if i try to map a physical serial port to the vm from infrastructure client the physical com is grey and i can choose only named pipe or file name.

Is possible to resolve this issue? I have forgot something? I need to connect a serial modem to the server for the microsoft fax service.

Thanks and best regards,

Carlo Sagratella.

[ocremel]

Mapping virtual serial port to physical serial port is not supported in the currently shipping version.

[daysleeper]

And the esx3.5 standard not the small version support the mapping of physical serial port?!?

Thanks.

[ocremel]

Yes, it is proxied by the Service Console.

[daysleeper]

Thanks for your quick response!

I'm wondering if i can update the esx3.5i to esx3.5 without lost the datacenter and the virtual disk inside of it.

Thanks and best regards.

[Anders_Gregerse]

I would recommend another solution than using a physical serialport in a host. You can buy devices that live on the network like serial, parallel and usb devices. This eliminates that vm's are bound the a physical host and allows you to add more devices. I have a USB dongle on the network because of one of our applications requires it.