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3 Expand New Serial Port.
4 On the Virtual Hardware tab, expand Serial port, and select a connection type.
Option Action
Use physical serial port
Select this option to have the virtual machine use a physical serial port on
the host computer. Select the serial port from the drop-down menu.
Use output file
Select this option to send output from the virtual serial port to a file on the
host computer. Browse to select an output file to connect the serial port to.
Use named pipe
Select this option to set a direct connection between two virtual machines
or a connection between a virtual machine and an application on the host
computer.
a Type a name for the pipe in the Pipe Name field.
b Select the Near end and Far end of the pipe from the drop-down
menus.
Connect over the network
Select Use network to connect through a remote network.
a Select the network backing.
n
Select Server to have the virtual machine monitor incoming
connections from other hosts.
n
Select Client to have the virtual machine initiate a connection to
another host.
b Enter a Port URI.
The URI is the remote end of the serial port to which the virtual
machine's serial port should connect.
c If vSPC is used as an intermediate step to access all virtual machines
through a single IP address, select Use Virtual Serial Port
Concentrator and enter the vSPC URI location.
Printer
Select Printer to connect to a remote printer.
5 (Optional) Select Yield on poll.
Select this option only for guest operating systems that use serial ports in polled mode. This option
prevents the guest from consuming excessive CPUs.
6 Select Connect at power on to connect the serial port when the virtual machine powers on.
7 Click OK.
Example: Establishing Serial Port Network Connections to a Client or Server
Without Authentication Parameters
If you do not use vSPC and you configure your virtual machine with a serial port connected as a server with
a telnet://:12345 URI, you can connect to your virtual machine's serial port from your Linux or Windows
operating system.
telnet yourESXiServerIPAddress 12345
Similarly, if you run the Telnet Server on your Linux system on port 23 (telnet://yourLinuxBox:23), you
configure the virtual machine as a client URI.
telnet://yourLinuxBox:23
The virtual machine initiates the connection to your Linux system on port 23.
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