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Add Network Serial Port in Fusion

  • 1.  Add Network Serial Port in Fusion

    Posted Jul 03, 2019 08:47 PM

    Took awhile but I figured out how to connect to a network serial port in Fusion on my Mac.

    PITA.

    Step 1: Don't boot the VM

    Step 2: Add a serial port and chose a bogus file for it

    Step 3: Go into the VMX file. For me, I had to right click the VM file, select "Show Package Contents" then open vmNAME.vmx with a text editor

    Step 4: Remove the following: Note, these 3 lines were scattered throughout the .vmx file

    serial0.present = "TRUE"

    serial0.fileType = "file"

    serial0.fileName = "/Users/Untitled"

    Step 5: Add the following

    serial0.present = "TRUE"

    serial0.yieldOnMsrRead = "TRUE"

    serial0.fileType = "network"

    serial0.fileName = "telnet://:12345"

    Step 6: Turn on the VM. Telnet to 127.0.0.1 12345 and voila!

    Hope this is helpful for someone down the road