6.5.1

Simple Client
Connection
If you are running a Telnet server on your system and you want the virtual
machine to automatically connect to it, you can configure the virtual
machine as a client using telnet://yourLinuxBox:23.
The Virtual machine keeps initiating the Telnet connection to port 23 on
yourLinuxBox.
Secure Client
Connection
Additional URI options allow you to enforce a specific server certificate and
restrict the ciphers being used. Virtual machines with a serial port
configured as a client with telnet://ipOfYourLinuxBox:
23#cipherList=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-
SHA&peerName=myLinuxBoxName.withDomain will connect to
ipOfYourLinuxBox only if the system supports one of two listed ciphers, and
if it presents a trusted certificate issued to myLinuxBoxName.withDomain.
Replace .withDomain with the full domain name, for example,
example.org.
Add a Serial Port to a Virtual Machine in the vSphere Web Client
You can connect the virtual serial port to a physical serial port or to a file on the host computer. You can
also use a host-side named pipe to set up a direct connection between two virtual machines or a
connection between a virtual machine and an application on the host computer. In addition, you can use a
port or vSPC URI to connect a serial port over the network. A virtual machine can use up to 32 serial
ports.
Important With virtual hardware version 11 and later, if you configure a virtual machine without serial
ports, they are entirely removed from the virtual chipset and they are not visible to the virtual machine OS.
Prerequisites
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Verify that the virtual machine is powered off.
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Check that you known the correct media types for the port to access, vSPC connections, and any
conditions that might apply. See Using Serial Ports with vSphere Virtual Machines.
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To connect a serial port over a network, add a Firewall rule set. See Adding a Firewall Rule Set for
Serial Port Network Connections.
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To use authentication parameter with network serial port connections, see Authentication Parameters
for Virtual Serial Port Network Connections.
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Required privilege: Virtual Machine .Configuration.Add or Remove Device
Procedure
1 Right-click a virtual machine in the inventory and select Edit Settings.
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