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Did you power down the XP guest OS, and add the Serial port through the VM's properties? <br />
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You would need to get to its properties, ADD, Serial, connect to physical serial on host, and connect at power on. &nbsp; <br />
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Did you power down the XP guest OS, and add the Serial port through the VM's properties?

You would need to get to its properties, ADD, Serial, connect to physical serial on host, and connect at power on.  



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When I try to Add the use physical port on the host is greyed out.
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When I try to Add the use physical port on the host is greyed out.

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Make certain that the Serial port on the Server is active and usable. Make sure its not disabled in the Host OS Bios. &nbsp; <br />
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What version of VMware host are you using? &nbsp;
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Make certain that the Serial port on the Server is active and usable. Make sure its not disabled in the Host OS Bios.  

What version of VMware host are you using?  

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Hello,<br />
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I would like to add the serial port in VMWARE in windows xp. I have installed the lines of <br />
serial0 there are five and then disabled the parralel port in the bios of that vm. Still I cannot communicate with the serial port. <br />
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What am I missing?<br />
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Thanks
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Hello,

I would like to add the serial port in VMWARE in windows xp. I have installed the lines of 
serial0 there are five and then disabled the parralel port in the bios of that vm. Still I cannot communicate with the serial port. 

What am I missing?

Thanks

VMWAre and Serial Port

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Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.