Specifications

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3. Select Serial Port, then click Next. The Serial Port Type screen appears.
4. Select Output to named pipe, then click Next. The Specify Named Pipe screen
appears.
5. Use the default pipe name, or enter another pipe name of your choice.
For a serial pipe on a Windows host, the pipe name must follow the form
\\.\pipe\<namedpipe> — that is, it must begin with \\.\pipe\.
For a serial pipe on a Linux host, enter /tmp/<socket> or another Unix
socket name of your choice.
Note: If you are using a Windows console to connect to a virtual machine on a
remote Linux host, be sure to specify a Linux pipe name here, such as
/tmp/<pipe>. If you are using a Linux console to connect to a virtual machine
on a remote Windows host, be sure to specify a Windows pipe name here, such
as \\.\pipe\<namedpipe>.
6. Select This end is the server or This end is the client. In general, select This end
is the server if you plan to start this end of the connection first.
7. Select The other end is an application.
8. The default device status setting is Connect at power on. You may deselect this
setting if you wish.