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    <title>article Configure Virtual Serial Port For Windows Virtual Machines On vCenter in VMware vCenter™ Documents</title>
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    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;IFRAME frameborder="0" width="425" height="350" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_od1xnF2Kuw" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/IFRAME&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="text-align: justify;"&gt;You can use serial ports to send debugging information from a server virtual machine to an application or a process running on the client virtual machine.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In this, I have relayed a text message from Windows 2008 machine to the Windows Clone machine using Named Pipe Serial port.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Couple of considerations here:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="text-align: justify;"&gt;1. The VM has to be Powered OFF during the configuration.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="text-align: justify;"&gt;2. The VMs configured with Named Pipe has to reside on the same host. If you have DRS configured on the cluster then you can create a VM-VM Affinity rules so that these two VMs configured for Serial Port always reside on the same host.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="text-align: justify;"&gt;3. You can test the configuration by using CMD on the near end and a putty for (Serial Port) on the far end.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Suhas&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
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      <title>Configure Virtual Serial Port For Windows Virtual Machines On vCenter</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Documents/Configure-Virtual-Serial-Port-For-Windows-Virtual-Machines-On/ta-p/2775197</link>
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