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Virtualbox Serial Port Connection Raspberry
Emulate Serial Port in Virtual Machine with Serial to Ethernet Connector. Serial to Ethernet Connector is one of the easiest ways to connect COM port in virtual machine that runs Linux or Windows. With the help of the software tool you will have an opportunity to get access to COM in VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix, or any other virtual environment. Do I like problems or what? ? I’m running Linux Mint 17.2 as my host, and I have a VirtualBox 5.0 VM running Windows 7 Professional. I decided I’d like to be able to run the Arduino software from within the VM, but not talking to an Arduino, but to a bare bones setup and programming AtTiny85 devices.
I am not able anymore to connect a VM to any of the host's COM ports under virtual box. I select 'Host device' and tried typing 'COM11' (Used to work in the past) 'com11', 'COM11:' or 'com11:' but it always fails to boot with:
Any clues on how to solve it?
- Host is a Windows 10 64bit machine.
- Host has COM11 and COM12 at the time of VM boot
- COM11 can be used by host applications (Putty et al)
- Guest is DOS but since it doesn't even boot, is irrelevant.
NeonManNeonMan
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The issue I was having is apparently using a port above COM9 requires special naming conventions. For COM1-COM9 you can just enter that into the Host path/address. COM11-COM256 need to be addressed by .COM*
Source:https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6421
Drew JanibagianDrew Janibagian
Apparently not all serial ports play nice. I noticed the FTDI based serial would work while de SiLabs based one wont.
Noticed an odd thing that may or may not be linked to this. Clicking on the advanced serial port options at the device properties if the window looks like this it doesnt work, but if it looks like this one it will.
NeonManNeonMan
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As an Embedded Software Engineer serial port access is very critical requirement for me irrespective off which OS I am using and how I am using it (I mean with or without virtualization).
I have Windows XP as primary Operating System, however, I need to work on Linux for lot of hobby projects. I hate to manage two computers for two reasons first is it makes workplace really messy with extra wires and Second is I always need some space to keep items like Power Supplies, Oscilloscopes, Programmers, Debuggers etc. which are unavoidable.
So I installed Kubuntu as Guest OS on my Windows Host and I wanted to access the host serial port for debugging purposes. Virtual Box does provide this feature and its quite easy to configure as well. The problem is, it can be done in more then one way and that’s where user might get confused that’s why I am writing this post.
RidDeBakTiYarRidDeBakTiYar33122 gold badges33 silver badges1010 bronze badges
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Can you just enable the serial port for that particular VM?
In VirtualBox, make sure your VM is not powered up, and
- Right Click your VM
- Click settings,
- Choose the 'Serial Ports' menu
- Select which Serial port you wich to pass through
- Click the checkbox to enable it.
you can also change settings for the serial ports from this screen.
RobotnikRobotnik2,12022 gold badges1818 silver badges3939 bronze badges
I found this question, and found the existing answer less than satisfactory. Here's how I solved a similar problem.
I have OpenSuSE 12.2 running as a guest on VirtualBox 4.2 on a Windows (Vista) host. I want to communicate with an X10 'Firecracker' serial device. What worked for me was
The key here, which was not obvious to me, was to select 'Host Device' and enter, seemingly redundantly, 'COM1' as the host path. I did NOT select 'Create Pipe'.
Rob CranfillRob Cranfill
Virtualbox allows each VM to have two serial ports. I tried everything under the sun to get this to work on the first of these ports (Settings | Serial Ports | Port 1 tabbed page).
Eventually I removed the check mark from 'Enable Serial Port' on port 1 and then tried Port 2 instead. It worked instantly, the Guest could use the host's physical serial port.
Host = Win 7 64 bitGuest = Win XP Pro SP3
Virtualbox Serial Port Setup
Philip BeckPhilip Beck