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Changing the connection for a serial port device from a virtual machine
You can change the connection for a virtual serial port. For example, you
can associate a different physical port with the virtual serial port, or choose
to use an output file or named pipe instead of a physical port connection.
To change the connection for a virtual serial port:
- Select File > Open and open the virtual machine
configuration file
(.cfg) you want to
modify.
- Select Settings > Configuration Editor from Workstation.
- From the list of devices ,
select the virtual serial
port.
- On the far right, make a different selection under
"Type" :
-
Device. Select
this option if you want the guest operating system in the virtual machine to
access the physical serial port on the host machine. Then enter the path to the physical serial
port that should correspond to the virtual serial port.
- File.
Select this option if
you want the virtual serial port to connect to an output file stored on the
host file system. Then click
Choose
to locate the output file to which this virtual serial port should be
connected.
-
TTY. Select this option if
you want the virtual serial port to connect to a named pipe, and then type the
path to the pipe in the space provided.
- Click OK.
- Power on the virtual machine.
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