How to connect to host from virtual machine on a specific port?

How to use the RS-232 port on the physical host from a virtual machine?

  • Okay so i'm running a virtual machine with Vmware the vm is of Windows 98 and the hosts operating system is xbuntu 13.04. I need to access the serial port from the windows 98 vm I ...show more

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    Did you port forward through your firewall? I am guessing you did, I mean you sound like you know what you are talking about. Also if you did port forward make sure you did it for your outbound rules on your home machine and your inbound rules on your virtual one. It may be unnecessary to do it on both but why not right? Hope this helped :)

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