1. Using Serial Port in the VMs running at Vmware Workstation

Named Pipe TCP Proxy is the one I am using on my laptop to connect to Named pipe on my Vmware Workstation VMs.  The Configuration looks like following:

  • Virtual Machine’s Settings
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  •  Named Pipe TCP Proxy’s Settings
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  •  SecureCRT’s Settings
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2. Using Serial Port in the VMs running on ESXi

In ESXi, it is already built-in feature for Vms.

  •  ESXi VM’s Settings – Near End is set to Com1 and Server mode, waiting windows serial client to connect to it
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  •  Windows 7 VM’s Settings – There are four serial port added , and Serial port 1 has been set to Com1 as a client.
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  •  SecureCRT’s Serial Connection setting
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