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Chapter 8 Configuring Virtual Machine Hardware
To connect a virtual serial port and an application on the host
1FromtheAddHardwareorNewVirtualMachinewizard,clickSerialPort.
ForinformationabouthowtostarttheAddHardwarewizard,see“A d d i n g
HardwaretoaVirtualMachine”onpage 137.
2ClickUseNamedPipe.
3OnthePropertiespage,enterthepathandfilenameforthepipe.Dependingonthe
host
system,enteroneofthefollowing:
OnWindowshosts:Thepipenamemustbeintheformat
\\.\pipe\<namedpipe>.Thenamemustbeginwith\\.\pipe\.
OnLinuxhosts:Thepipenamemustbe/tmp/<socket>oranotherUNIX
socketnameofyourchoice.
4FortheNearEnd,selectIsaserverorIsaclient.
SelectIsaserverifyouplantostartthisendoftheconnectionfirst.
5FortheFarEnd,selectIs
anapplication.
6 (Optional)Toconnecttothenamedpipewhenthevirtualmachineispoweredon,
selectConnectatpoweron(thedefault).
7 (Optional)ExpandI/OModetoselectYieldCPUonpoll,whichisdeselectedby
default.
Thekernelinthetargetvirtualmachineusesthevirtualserialport
inpolledmode,
notinterruptmode.Formoreinformation,see“YieldingCPUonPolltoImprove
PerformanceWhenDebugging”onpage 176.
8ClickNext.
TheReadytoCompletepagedisplaysthehardwaresettings.
9Reviewtheconfigurationsummary,andclickFinishtocompletethewizard.
10 Onyourhostsystem,configuretheapplicationthatcommunicates
withthevirtual
machinetousethesamepipename(foraWindowshost)ortheUNIXsocketname
(foraLinuxhost).
11 Poweronthevirtualmachine.