Greetings,
I have a Dell PowerEdge T620 that I loaded ESXi 5.1 with to have a second VMWare host for my school district. Due to the age of our door system I had to copy a physical host running WinXP SP3 from an old Dell Optiplex GX150 that hosted the control program. The import went well, but I can't get the virtual machine to read the phyical serial port on the VMWare host. I went under the virtual machine while it was powered off and clicked, on summary and then edit settings. Next under the hardware tab I added the serial port and told it to connect using the physical connection /dev/char/serial/uart0. There are no conflicts in the virtual machine's device manager. All I need is to get COM1 to recognize and I can close the ticket out for this project. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Luke Miller