Serial Port is configured for a virtual machine...

Dear team,

I found the serial port is configured on one of the virtual machine, which follows is the blink of an eye the same.

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Just want, serial port is required for the devices on which?

Usually, you see the serial port after a P2V and not detached from the VM.

Why is it necessary?  Nowadays it probably isn't, but there are days where we still used modems on (among other things) serial ports.  Introducing a serial port to the virtual machine, you can go through the device that was attached to the serial port of the server host directly on the virtual computer.

Today it is not really useful and you can probably just close the virtual machine and remove it.

Matt

http://www.thelowercasew.com

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