VMware Workstation - Serial Port limit

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• xw6600 Workstation - Serial Port problems

  I want to add a standard RS232 9 pins (serial) port on my HP xw6600 workstation.

  Due to the current expansion I have only x 8 PCIe and PCIe x 16 available on the motherboard slots.

  I tried two dedicated PCIe Searial maps (PX-235 BrainBoxes and SatrTech BY - 1 S 552) and caused both the PC go into a continuous re-start cycle, i.e. the PC through the BIOS and rebooting itself before loading the operating system.  I tried to disable the interface Serial Port built into the BIOS, but it made no difference and cars (s) should be removed.

  I noticed that the motherboard has an onbard Serial Port adapter, but I don't know what hardware is required to present this port at the rear of the workstation (cable and plate back I guess), or even if it can be used for this purpose.

  If someone added a serial port to the device, I'd be interested to know how they did it.

  Thank you.

  That's what you're looking for. It is a connector standard seial that connects to the head set to edge out motherboard to an empty slot on the back of your pc. There are many on the market. You should be able to find a room for @ $6-8, 00 USD to any electronic parts store. If you activate the serial port in the BIOS, coupled with the installation of a configuration like this, you should have what you are looking for.

• Property of VMware Workstation 8 serial number does not work

  Hello

  I used to install WS7 issuing a command line like this:

  VMware Workstation.msi"/ qb! /norestart ADDLOCAL = ALL DISABLE_AUTORUN = 0 QUICKLAUNCH_SHORTCUT = 0 USERNAME = "xxx" COMPANYNAME = "xxx" SERIALNUMBER = "xxxx".

  Now, SERIALNUMBER has been removed from the msi properties table.

  Is it possible to have a solution for this other than the registration of import reg file?

  This issue has a lot of visibility with the devs, and we are working on implementing this properly in my computer.  For 8.0.1 users are able to configure shortcuts, port pass, serial key and persist / remove settings from the workstation through the command line, but we still have more work to do.  Still, some settings do not work and are not passed through. Currently INSTALLDIR and the features of REMOVAL does not work.

  But, you can indeed install w / serial number in the installation in silent mode starts now with Workstation 8.0.1.

  VMware-workstation-plein-8.0.1-528992.exe/s/v SERIALNUMBER = "xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx" works when it is run from an elevated command prompt.

• Serial port PCI and PCI Simple Communications controller for workstation Z200 drivers.

  In the Device Manager Windows XP, (in other devices) PCI serial both the simple PCI controller are yellow/exclaimation marks.

  Help, please

  Thanks to all good.

  P.S. this thread was moved from the business PCs - Compaq, Elite, Pro for workstations - z series, series xw and legacy x series w - moderator of the Hp Forum

  Hello:

  Plase see if this driver installs these devices.

  It should install the PCI serial port device.

  http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=0&prodSeriesId=4100568&prodNameId=4100644&swEnvOID=1093&swLang=13&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=wk-104237-1

  If it does not install the simple comms PCI controller, see if this driver installs only.

  http://h20000.www2.HP.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&swItem=VC-87672-1&mode=4&IDX=1&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=3688868

• VMware Fusion Version 2.0.5 (173382) Serial Port config.

  I do some tests with some of our products and I struck a death sentence.  I have a few products that I need virtulize however, the ONLY way to configure (after Virtualization) is on the serial port.

  VMware Server (windows) will allow you to log in from a virtual machine to another virtual machine throughout the series. for example using named pipes, I do the following, but I can't use Vmware server, I need to know if fusion can do.  Even with the manual files if possible editing.

  
  customer .\pipe\com_1
  Server .\pipe\com_1

  VM-Windows XP (Client) -series virtualProduct (Server) - VM-internal

  I found that parallels offers this, but some of my images of BONES are designed to use vmware lsi logic and the installation fails for other reasons.

  Anyone has any ideas on this?

  Using

  Serial0.present = 'TRUE '.
  Serial0.filetype = 'pipe '.
  Serial0.filename = "/ tmp/series.
  Serial0.noLock = 'TRUE '.
  Serial0.yieldOnMsrRead = 'TRUE '.
  Serial0.pipe.endpoint = 'customer '.
  Serial0.tryNoRxLoss = 'TRUE '.
  Serial0.AutoDetect = "false".

  one side and

  Serial0.present = 'TRUE '.
  Serial0.filetype = 'pipe '.
  Serial0.filename = "/ tmp/series.
  Serial0.noLock = 'TRUE '.
  Serial0.yieldOnMsrRead = 'TRUE '.
  Serial0.pipe.endpoint = 'server '.
  Serial0.tryNoRxLoss = 'TRUE '.
  Serial0.AutoDetect = "false".

  on the other hand should work. Or, use the type of endpoint 'server' with different filenames from both sides and run 'socat' to couple the pipes.

• VMWare Workstation on a virtual computer

  Hi guys,.

  I'm looking to get a new laptop for a company, I'm leaving, and I was thinking about a mac. However, most of my software is based on windows. No problem, I already use VMWare Workstation as half of it is also not supported on anything except XP SP1. My only concern with a mac, is that while I can have all my VM set up, I can not run VMWare Workstation on OSX, so if I need to change something in the settings of the virtual machine, I need access to a PC with VMWare workstation.

  Unless, I thought, I use a PC to initially set up a virtual machine running windows XP/7/8 with the sole purpose of running VMWare Workstation. Then I run this virtual machine by using the merger, make my changes, register the virtual machine on the host computer, and then run them using the merger.

  So outside all feeling a bit like this guy:

  

  Can someone tell me if this is really possible? Or if she would have inherent problems that I have not thought? Having not used merge I don't know how access to the settings of the virtual machine I would be compared to the workstation, perhaps merger would in itself be sufficient. The only things I'll need to play with are virtual serial ports, and network connections. In any case all advice is appreciated!

  Thank you!

  Hello

  From the description above, I think that merging should be pretty good, that said you can always get a trial version of VMware Fusion

  Click on the link below to download the demo version:

  https://my.VMware.com/group/VMware/info?slug=desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_fusion/6_0

  Now make a copy of the virtual machine responds you plan to use and see if VMware Fusion to your questions.

  Once you are convinced, then you can buy VMware Fusion and use it,

  Hope this helps

• Serial port under guest operating system does not work

  Running VMWare Workstation 7.1.3 on win 7-64 bit. Guest operating system is win 7 32 AND Windows XP (32 bit). I followed the instructions on connecting to the host serial port. However, there is no access to serial port a guest OS. Serial Port sniffer running on the host shows NO ACTIVITY on the port operating system serial host.

  Even serial device, attached and if running on the host works very well.

  Any ideas?

  Steve

  I doubt that the documentation is correct for what is with VMplayer 3 on Windows TGV serial ports is.
  Read my notes http://faq.sanbarrow.com/index.php?solution_id=1007

  I removed the option of thinprint and reconfigured the serial port in the vmx file attached.

  Turn off the virtual machine and replace the existing by the attached vmx file.
  Then try again

  If it still does not - change
  Serial0.yieldOnMsrRead = "FALSE".
  TO
  Serial0.yieldOnMsrRead = 'true '.

• Option named pipe to add the missing Serial Port to Linux host

  Hi all

  I try to add a serial port as a channel named for a kernel debugging

  the installer, but this option is missing (see screenshot1). There are

  However the options to add the serial port in the file/socket.

  The host is 64-bit Fedora 10 2.6.27.24 - 170.2.68.fc10.x86_64 running.

  Workstation is 6.5.2 build-156735. I found that the named pipe option is missing, regardless of the type of the guest OS.

  I had posted this last week.

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/1267552

  and he said since as soon as I put in the following options in the marked .vmx file, a serial port option came (see screenshot2).

  Serial0.present = 'TRUE '.

  Serial0.filetype = 'pipe '.

  Serial0.filename = "/ tmp/com_1".

  I realized that I have a VM as the serial port server and others as a customer. So adding the option-

  Serial0.pipe.endpoint = 'server '.

  However, this option is breaking the vm configs (cannot start VM until I have delete this line).

  Please see the attached screenshot3 6.5.2 on Windows and you will see that there is a different and complete serial port setting to the research. You can easily set a virtual machine as a client/server side of the connection series on Windows.

  I would really appreciate if someone could give me some pointers as to why this difference between Linux and Windows, and how to get the type parameters for the serial ports under Linux Windows?

  My main goal for the purchase of workstation was to do kernel debugging using the serial ports, and now I'm totally paralyzed because of this. Pointers and suggestions are greatly welcome.

  Thank you very much

  HS

  no need to apologize

  Hey - if you work with functions like this - use the vmx directly - file so you can be sure that you get what you order

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  VMX-settings- VMware-liveCD - VM-infirmary

• Part number for the serial port in option HP Z420

  I am looking for the serial port in option for the HP Workstation Z420, but in a datasheet, it is only mentioned as an optional serial port kit.

  What is the number on the right side of the product? The same for the workstation Z400 was PA716A, but it was not compatible with the new workstation model...

  I used the same part number, I used to model Z400 and it seems to work well.
  HP code is PA716A.

• Store data from the Serial Port in the buffer and then take action?

  Hello! Everyone,

  I'm new to LabVIEW and I take assistance from various videos and stuffs available online to get started with LabVIEW.

  But I have a duty, therefore needing help.

  initially I see some of the tutorial videos and learned about the LabVIEW interface, and does a little project to communicate with the Port series (receiving and sending data).

  Happens to my task.

  My LabVIEW application will send a few State request packets on my device or control and based on the response packet that I have to display values.

  The Structure of package is as

  Header, length, Op_Code, data Checksum

  There is no terminator as newline or carriage return or anything else.

  In C language, I read the data from the Serial Port, and based on the length, I conclude that I got the full package or not, and then by recalculating the checksum value, the integrity of the package is verified and then based on that Op-Code has been sent will be decided.

  (I'm dealing with hexadecimal data)

  But how can I do this in LabVIEW.
  A tutorial or any referece will be useful for me.

  1. I suggest that you learn to use Shift Registers instead of local and global variables.  They are much more efficient (memory and execution speed) and make it much easier to read the schema.

  2. you don't need this inside the loop property node.  Is there a way to configure a Serial Port to turn off the stop character.

  3. you don't need to wait for playback VISA will limit the rate of loop if no data is coming.

  4. Once you have the length, you simply read the rest of the entire message and process it at a time.  This will make things a LOT faster.

  5. you should really do this enum a def type so that you can ensure that all your enum constants have the same values.  If you need to add a State later, simply update your enum in the same place then.

  

• Need 16 to 115 200 serial ports, can not get more 8 then

  I try to get 16 to 115 200 serial ports send/receive data. I have a NI PCIe-8431/16 (RS-485/422).

  I managed to get 8 ports will at the same time but not anymore. I tried 9 ports at a time and I get timeouts on port 9.

  PC: Dual core 2.4 GHz, 4 GB of Ram. I'm not more taxing on the CPU, I mean its 115 200 what treatment he would need.

  I'm already talking with OR to the care, but so far they don't have a definitive answer of fix. I thought that maybe windows XP can handle 8 ports?

  I also tried to use 8 of 16 channels and 1 another card 4 ports, I've had. Always the same results. I can do 8 simultaneous connections, sending data. and it seems that I can get the 9th to send to 2400 baud, but when I switch to port to 115 200 speed it fails / timesout?

  More information about my project: I am trying to update firmware on 16 devices at once. To 115 200, it takes 6 minutes to push all the code of the device.

  Process is: 2400 baud get version and check if a new version is necessary. 2400 baud say im switching machine for 115 200 2400 baud response. 115 200 baud send start download receive response to 115 200 baud rate. Send the bytes start and spell then line of the file at a time. Send end. done bytes.

  Anyone know of possible limitations under XP or with the device OR? Any help or idea would be apreciated.

  worst case I limit to 8 at a time. which is useless then. Might as well buy a controller at 8 ports and make a smaller device...

  Well, I fixed my problem with the help of using NI SPY on serial ports. Thanks for this idea of troubleshooting, first time I had to use or spy.

  First problem was my 100msec device timeout of 2400 baud to 115200 baud of switching. I added a loop for, 5 time, delays from 20msec (total 100msec) to send 'start download' and also to receive a response, after the transmission change. This allowed the unit to wait for firmware.

  Then I noticed that I had a ton of failure during the download. Process is send receive some line of code 0 x 01 that the code was excluded, then send the following line of code. If she gets 0 x 01 has not received or 0x02, and then send it again (forever if you want, well I think that several seconds until the device stops data receiver)

  My problem here is that I sent the data line, then read 1 byte. Timeout is set to 500msec. My code would get a timeout, so I'll send the data once again, since I have not received of 0x01. For some reason, it does not. After that I get the timeout I can't send/recieve on this port. I have then close and restart.

  Fix was a loop (20 times?) for 500 msec and check the receive buffer. If the receive buffer is empty after 500msec I try again. If the receive buffer has data then I read and check to 0x01. If I don't get 0x01 I try again. Otherwise, send the following line of code. It works very well.

  Finally, I can picture 16 devices in less than 7 minutes. This should normally be one at a time for 7 minutes each using a matrix of series 48.

  Next challenge 48 serial ports!

  Thanks for the help.

• HP Compaq 6000 Pro AIO: PCI Serial Port driver for HP Compaq 6000 Pro

  Hello world

  I could get help to find driver serial port PCI for HP Compaq 6000 Pro all in one workstation. It has 8.1 Windows x 64 installed. The hardware IDS are

  PCI\VEN_8086 & DEV_2E17 & SUBSYS_1489103C & REV_03
  PCI\VEN_8086 & DEV_2E17 & SUBSYS_1489103C
  PCI\VEN_8086 & DEV_2E17 & CC_070002
  PCI\VEN_8086 & DEV_2E17 & CC_0700

  Thank you

  Vignesh

  Hello:

  You need this driver... Install manually if auto installation does not work.

  http://h20565.www2.HP.com/hpsc/SWD/public/detail?sp4ts.Oid=4210069&swItemId=vc_85050_1&swEnvOid=4059

  You can see on the partial copy and paste installation information file driver that the ID you have posted is supported by this driver.

  ; Drivers
  ;----------------------------------------------------------
  [Manufacturer]
  Intel % = Intel, NTamd64

  [Intel.NTamd64]
  % SRL_DeviceDesc % = ComPort, "PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_2E07 & CC_0700"
  % SRL_DeviceDesc % = ComPort, "PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_2E17 & CC_0700"
  % SRL_DeviceDesc % = ComPort, "PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_2E27 & CC_0700"
  % SRL_DeviceDesc % = ComPort, "PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_2E37 & CC_0700"
  % SRL_DeviceDesc % = ComPort, "PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_2E97 & CC_0700"

• Add serial port

  I am trying to add a serial port to a virtual computer to point to the physical serial port ESXI hosts. I must repeat cela about a hundred times, so looking for this script. I can find scripts to do this with other types of serial ports, but could not adapt it to a physical serial port mapped through.

  Thank you

  You can try like this?

  You will need to check the "devicename".

  $vmName =

  $dev = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualDeviceConfigSpec

  $dev.operation = 'Add '.

  $dev.device = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualSerialPort

  $dev.device.key = - 1

  $dev.device.backing = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualSerialPortDeviceBackingInfo

  $dev.device.backing.deviceName = ' / dev/tank/series/uart0.

  $dev.device.connectable = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualDeviceConnectInfo

  $dev.device.connectable.startConnected = $true

  $dev.device.connectable.allowGuestControl = $true

  $dev.device.connectable.connected = $true

  $dev.device.yieldOnPoll = $true

  $spec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec

  $spec. DeviceChange += $dev

  $vm = get-VM-name $vmName

  $vm. ExtensionData.ReconfigVM ($spec)

• 6u2 ESXi host nested on VMware Workstation for Linux referee v12

  Hello all, I have

  I have a lab environment virtual running in VMware Workstation for Linux v12, and my ESXi hosts do not work correctly on one of the virtual networks. All my troubleshooting suggests a problem with nested ESXi hosts that may be a bug, but I want to assure you that I did everything properly first. That's why I post here with the hope that if I made a mistake that maybe someone else can point out he me.

  Physical system

  8 core Intel Xeon 2.1 GHz CPU

  128 GB of RAM

  OS - kernel Linux 64 - bit w/3.19.0-32-generic Linux Mint 17.3 (fully updated from this announcement)

  VMware Workstation 12 Pro - 12.1.1. Build-3770994 (fully updated from this announcement)

  Nested ESXi host VM

  ESXi v6.0.0 (Build 3825889, completely updated from this announcement)

  4 cards 'physical' (only 3 used for now)

  -all use the e1000 NIC hardware virtual, but also tried vmxnet3 NIC with no difference

  -vSwitch0 use vmnic0 & 1 vmnet16 of virtual network in a pair of active / standby

  -vSwitch1 uses vmnic2 on network virtual vmnet18

  -vmk0 used for management on vSwitch0 and vmk1 for iSCSI on vSwitch1

  -"Promiscuous" mode and forged passes enabled on all Port vSwitch groups (activating or turning off these features makes no difference)

  Test performed until now

  I checked that all the IP addresses and network masks used are correct.

  With the help of vmkping I ping other nodes on the network vmnet16 with success.

  With the help of vmkping I tried to ping the other nodes in the network vmnet18, but that has failed.

  I have depolyed other non - ESXi VMs on the vmnet18 network, and they are able to ping each other, but are unable to ping or ping by the ESXI host.

  I tried various material virtual NIC as mentioned before, but without changes in the results.

  I tried to use only local network instead of the vmnet18 guest network segments with no change in results.

  When I find out the status of the network adapters on the ESXi host through vCenter or host incorporated client vmnic0 & 1 time display network information, but vmnic2 shows no networks. Yet, I know that there is a network with different VM communicate on it. Moreover, I was able to get all of this work on a Windows system running 10 Workstation (this is the laptop that my employer gives me with).

  Having built nested ESXi labs on different platforms as well as physical environments in the past, I'm very confused as to why I can't get this special configuration to work. At this point my gut tells me that this is probably a bug any with the nested themselves ESXi hosts. Since I can get all this work on vmnet16 including the management of ESXi hosts and the VCSA that I use, I am sure that my vSwitch configuration is correct (other than the IP address space and vmnic configurations is bascially the same). Because I can get other virtual machines to communicate over the network vmnet18 I don't see how can be a VMware Workstation for the issue physical Linux host. Is there something obvious I'm missing here? I read on the ESXi hosts nested under VMware Workstation after having known problems and bugs with networking. If anyone else has experienced this?

  Thanks for any help others can provide!

  Kind regards

  Patrick

  Well, the problem is now resolved. The problem was what covelli was trying to explain, but I couldn't because the physical host network adapters being mentioned.

  The problem on the Linux host, but it was a problem of permissions with the virtual Ethernet adapters. The following article has the fix:
  With the help of Ethernet virtual cards in Promiscuous Mode on a Linux host (287) | VMware KB

  Even if I launched the workstation under the root user I have yet met this problem and which still makes no sense to me, but change the permissions solve the problem. I was not getting an error message on my Linux Mint and Ubuntu system, but when I tried on a second box of Linux Mint that I just got the error has been generated, and the error message was the above link it contains.

  So, here's what I learned:

  (1) the question has nothing to with a VMware Workstation definition that you can configure.

  (2) the question has nothing to do with a physical network card.
  (3) the question has nothing to do with any vmnic on the nested ESXi host.

  (4) apparently virtual Ethernet adapters are not the correct permissions when created.

  All you have to do to fix this is:

  (1) open a terminal.

  (2) run the command ' sudo chmod a + rw/dev/vmnet * "(don't forget to run this each time that you create a new virtual network).

  You can also create a group, as shown in the link above and simply give this group the correct permissions. Personally, I think it's easier to just give everyone the rw permission.

  I appreciate the help that others have offered. I did not understand what was asked for in previous answers because of the terms that have been used.

• External client access VMware Workstation shared 11 VM?

  Hello world

  I have a small problem that we have a VMware workstation installed on my PC to 10 windows and I would allow a few colleagues access to the virtual machines shared on this topic.

  I enabled the shared virtual machine settings, and I can confirm that I can connect from another post on my local network.

  However, I can't seem to connect to the shared virtual machines from outside my network. I DynDNS and handed over port 443 to the Windows box with installed Workstation (192.168.2.10).

  I even tried changing ports internally using the shared virtual machine parameters.

  Also tried, is to have a different external port one internally (7000 ext sent to 443)

  Adding to this I tried the IP of my router (to rule out DDNS) - in regard to this, I can connect directly to the virtual machine via DDNS passed to image.

  The Windows Firewall is disabled on the host of the workstation.

  Then... Please this is; Is this really possible? Before that I continue to invest in any time in it.

  And... I tried to get that I promise you!

  Kudos to everyone for any help

  Hi SpoonRacer,

  Welcome to the community of workstation! Of course, this scenario is possible. Sharing of the VM has no difference with other standard network on the IP layer services.

  I think that General measures to be implemented are:

  1. Get the accessible external IP address of your private network
  2. Map the TCP 443 port to the external IP address on port TCP 443 of the Windows box workstation running by the DNAT
  3. Allow inbound network traffic on port TCP 443 on Windows machine running Workstation
  4. (Optional) Configure DynDNS point your domain name to the external IP address of your private network

  For example:

  1. Get the external IP address: 216.58.216.164
  2. Map 216.58.216.164:443 to 192.168.2.10:443 by the DNAT
  3. Open the TCP 443 port on host 192.168.2.10 (now you should be able to access your shared virtual machines using 216.58.216.164 for outside networks)
  4. (Optional) Configure ws.spoonracerdomain.org resolves to 216.58.216.164 (now, you should be able to access your shared virtual machines using ws.spoonracerdomain.org for outside networks)

  However, these steps are not very easy to implement due to some possible limitations of your private network:

  • If your private network is at home, the external IP address and it is very accessible from outside of the network depends on your ISP (internet service provider). I know, some ISP does not allow the public IP address used by individual users accessible via the public network. Some ISPS even not you assigned a public IP, other users and you share a single public IP, in this case, you would not be able to apply step 2.
  • If your private network is to your business, and you're not network administrator for your company, you would not be able to apply step 2.

  Anyway, you can try to open a Web site on the Windows machine running Workstation to the outside network. If successful, then the service share of VM can be done the same way (just change the port 80 of the site to 443 folder).

  Kind regards

  Shawn