I have a device that I need to program through a serial port. The problem is my laptop doesn't a serial port. I do however have a serial-to-USB cable that I can plug in. I can then set it to use COM1. So to program the device in question I have to boot to a floppy drive and run the programming application in a DOS environment. In order for the serial-to-USB cable driver to work I have to have Windows running.

To work around this problem I thought I could use a virtual machine in Hyper-V or VirtualBox that could map a serial port to a named pipe. Here's where I'm getting confused. It would seem like what I need to do is somehow serve my COM1 port to a named pipe on my laptop. I could then point the virtual machine to that named pipe. I see how to point the virtual machine to a named pipe. I just don't see how to 'serve' that named pipe from my laptop. I've read around about creating named pipes and such, but I still don't see how to map my COM1 port to the named pipe so I can then in turn connect to it with a virtual machine.

Is this possible to do? Is my thought process flawed? Interesting information in those links.

Thanks for that. I'll continue studying them more, but the information is geared for VMware. I'm using either Hyper-V (prefered) or Sun VirtualBox if I have to.

If you have anything geared more toward Hyper-V that would be great. I think I understand how to set up the Hyper-V side to connect to the named pipe. I think what I have to do is figure out how to get the COM port linked to the named pipe so I can then connect the Hyper-V machine to it. Would you know how to do that part specifically? There's a lot of information in the links you provided so I'll keep looking.

Apr 25, 2012 Serial Port (COM1) Hyper-V. As matter of fact, the physical serial ports are not supported at all. Never tried to make the named pipes. We are trying to connect two Hyper-V VMs through a serial port. Hyper-V exposes the serial port as a named pipe to the host system, and implements the server end of. Poser Download Free. Ashampoo Burning Studio 2009 Free Download Full Version Serial Key.