I am having a issue supporting a console port. I'm running Virtual Box 4.3.16 (latest) I entered under settings for Virtual Box: x Enable serial port x Host Pipe x create pipe Port/File Path:. Pipe COM1 When I start the VBox Windows7 and launch Putty, then type in COM1, but there is no connection.it just blinks.

I know this works on the base machine because I have connection to my Cisco router, but the serial port does not seem to work on the Vbox.? Any help would greatly be appreciated!!! Posts: 4 Joined: 11. Sep 2014, 16:21. Quote: Please read Minimum information needed for assistance and provide the 'showvminfo' output. On the host, did you intend it to be a named pipe or a physical COM1? It doesn't seem to me to be a great idea to name a pipe COM1, and the actual COM1 is not a pipe.

END QUOTE Thank for your the quick reply. I think I have everything down in the attachments, please let me know if you need more information. I intend for it to be a Physical COM1 on the Virtual Box.

I will not be using the base machine for the communications port only the Virtual Box.I thought I had to 'pipe' it to my Vbox? I'm new to this, any help would greatly be appreciated.

Kind regards, Joe Attachments Settings for Vbox (146.86 KiB) Downloaded 121 times Vbox extension packs vbox extension packs.JPG (32.58 KiB) Viewed 11636 times Guest Log file (9.64 KiB) Downloaded 53 times Posts: 4 Joined: 11. Sep 2014, 16:21. I could swear I remember seeing an image showing COM6 appearing in your host Device Manager ports section. Did you delete it? If so then choosing to delete that image was a pity, since it was the most relevant picture posted. It's what told me that you have an actual COM6 on your host, hence a pipe wasn't needed. If possible you can restore that image (you can remove the blue console image) so that this discussion makes more sense to future readers.

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VirtualBox Serial Debugging on Windows. This tutorial uses VirtualBox version 4.2.6. You can set Port Mode as either Host Pipe Mode or Raw File Mode when serial.

First of all virtual box wont create a Serial port for your host. So you have to create 2 virtual COM ports in host using some other software and bridge these two ports virtually. Then use one port to connect to simulink and other must be setup in such a way that VM COM port uses this port. For creating virtual com port in windows I will be using com0com from. C Program For Ipc Using Pipes. You can use any software you like. After installing com0com, open setuppg.exe from C: Program Files (x86) com0com.

Now click apply. Now you will have COM9 and COM10 bridged (Its like COM9 and COM10 are internally connected) Next we need to connect COM9 port in Host to COM1 port in Guest OS for that open Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager and open the settings of your required Virtual Machine. Now, select Serial Ports and setup like shown below and click OK. NOTE: windows provides legacy names only for COM ports 1 through to 9. For all other COM ports you must use the full device naming convention under windows.