Jun 25, 2009 The COM ports on a virtual machine provide serial connections. This type of port is most commonly used to transfer data for debugging purposes or to.
Configure a COM port for a virtual machine
Configuring a Serial Port (Windows CE 5.0)
The most critical phase in serial communications programming is configuring the port settings with the DCB structure. Erroneously initializing the DCB structure is a.
The COM ports on a virtual machine provide serial connections. This type of port is most commonly used to transfer data for debugging purposes or to capture the output of virtual machine. You can select one of the following to attach to a COM port: Physical serial port. Select this option to use a COM port on the physical computer for input and output on the virtual machine.
You can add up to four serial COM ports to a virtual machine. Virtual serial ports can output to physical serial ports, files, or named pipes.
Using Serial Ports The following sections describe how to use serial ports with VMware Workstation: Using a Serial Port on the Host Computer.
The most critical phase in serial communications programming is configuring the port settings with the DCB structure. Erroneously initializing the DCB structure is a common problem. When a serial communications function does not produce the expected results, the DCB structure might be in err. A call to the CreateFile function opens a serial port with default port settings. Usually, the application needs to change the defaults.
My problem is that Serial Ports that are configured in VM Workstation 5.5 are not showing up when the VM is run on VMPlayer. I am running VMWare.