#Use com5 prot on ubuntue 16 on vitual machine serial

Suggestion: forget about trying to assign com-ports to your VM. Tutorial for programming the serial port on Windows using Win32 API and serially communicating with an. When I wrote, that you can use up to 4 physical com-ports inside a VM, this applied to Workstation 4.5, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 and 7 only.Īs far as I know versions later than 12.01 can use only one or two Com-ports and those ports MUST be real Com-ports.Īdditional ports supplied by a USB´- serial ports card/ adapter worked in the mentioned old versions only.ĪFAIK what you have in mind will not work at all with any of the recent versions - I assume that the documentation in case it still mentions up to 4 possible com-ports has just been copied over from the working good old versions and nobody ever checked if that part still applies nowadays. To forward ports in VirtualBox, first open a virtual machine’s settings window by selecting the Settings option in the menu.

Workstation Pro requires that the parallel port PC-style hardware option ( CONFIGPARPORTPC) is built and loaded as a kernel module.

I followed these instructions, but I cant find the user group vboxusers. The problem is that it doesnt detect USB drives in Windows 7, but USB peripherals (mouse + keybord) are working. Linux 2.6.x kernels that support parallel ports use the modprobe modulename and modprobe parportpc modules. 134 Im using Ubuntu Maverick and Virtual Box 3+. Please note that I wrote those instructions for Workstation 7. Configure a Virtual Parallel Port on a Linux 2.6.x Kernel Host. Ethernet interfaces Ethernet interfaces are identified by the system using predictable network interface names. This document is geared toward server administrators and will focus on managing your network on the command line.

To configure more than one com-port you cant use the GUI ! Network configuration Ubuntu ships with a number of graphical utilities to configure your network devices.