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Procedure
1 Click Virtual Machines in the VMware Host Client inventory.
2 Right-click a virtual machine in the list and select Edit  from the pop-up menu.
3 On the Virtual Hardware tab, select Add other device and select Serial Port.
The Serial Port appears in the hardware list.
4 In the hardware list, expand the serial port and select the type of media port to access.
Option Description
Use output file
Browse to the location of the le on the host to store the output of the
virtual serial port.
Use physical serial port
Select the port from the drop-down menu.
Use named pipe
a Type a name for the pipe in the Pipe name eld
b Select the Near End and Far End of the pipe from the drop-down
menus.
Use network
a From the Direction drop-down menu, select Server or Client.
b Type the port URI.
The URI is the remote end of the serial port to which the serial port of
the virtual machine 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.
5 (Optional) Deselect Connect at power on if you do not want the parallel port device to connect when
the virtual machine powers on.
6 Click Save.
Example: Establishing Serial Port Network Connections to a Client or Server Without Authentication
Parameters
If you do not use vSPC and you congure 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
congure the virtual machine as a client URI.
telnet://yourLinuxBox:23
The virtual machine initiates the connection to your Linux system on port 23.
Add a Parallel Port to a Virtual Machine in the VMware Host Client
To connect peripheral devices to virtual machines, such as printers and scanners, you can use a parallel port.
You send the output of such devices to a le on the host computer.
N To add a parallel port to a virtual machine that runs on an ESXi 4.1 or earlier host, you can also select
to send output to a physical parallel port on the host. This option is not available with ESXi 5.0 and later host
versions.
Prerequisites
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Power o the virtual machine.
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