How to access serial port in virtual machine

Often happens that serial port cannot be accessed in the virtual environment. Either enabling their support is complicated and not always reliable or the virtual environment does not support serial ports at all. So how can one access serial ports in virtual machine?

Access COM port in virtual machine

Serial to Ethernet Connector

One of the easiest ways to connect COM port to a virtual machine that runs under Windows or Linux is Serial over Ethernet Connector. Thanks to virtual serial port emulation, this software allows to create a connection between a server and client over the Ethernet network, which will initiate serial data redirection from the physical COM port to the virtual one and vice versa. You only need to specify IP address or network name of the remote server and TCP port you would like to connect to. The client connection means that the data sent from the remote end will be received by a local serial port and will be processed further.

To start working with a COM port, download and install the app, it will display a list of devices available to you, find the one you need and connect to it. Serial to Ethernet Connector enables access to serial port in Hyper-V, VMWare, Citrix XenDesktop and other virtualization software.