Specifications

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3. Click Serial Port. The Serial Port page appears.
4. To connect this virtual machine to the device when the virtual machine is
powered on, check Connect at Power On.
5. Connect to a named pipe on the host. In the Device list, select Named Pipe.
6. Enter the location of the file in the Location field.
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>.
7. For the server virtual machine, select This end is the server.
For the client virtual machine, select This end is the client.
8. Select The other end is a virtual machine.
9. Check Yield CPU on Poll if you want to configure this device to use polled mode.
This option is of interest primarily to developers who are using debugging tools
that communicate over a serial connection. For more information, see Special
Configuration Options for Advanced Users on page 306.
10. Click OK to add the parallel port.
11. Repeat these steps for the client virtual machine.