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How To Set Up A Serial Port Between Two Virtual Machines In VirtualBox I needed to test serial communication between two VirtualBox guest machines on Linux. This tutorial describes what I did to set up a serial port between two virtual machines running on VirtualBox.

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By: Anonymous

On a windows host

specify the pipe name in the format: \\.\pipe\<pipe_name>

  https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=45226

By: MHD

In my case I have to start the machine with the unchecked "Create pipe" check box first, otherwise I have the error message.

By: adnan

I have tried to connect 2 VB with Windows 10. It is the newest version of VB 6.1.30. In serial port, the configuration checkbox is now : "Connect to existing pipe socket". instead of :"create pipe" is in your above example. 

Ehen I have checked this box for the first VM, it  started and stopped with an error: "NamedPipe#0 failed to connect to named pipe \tmp\vboxS0 (VERR_PATH_NOT_FOUND)".

 

What to do in this case, where there is no check box "create pipe" ?

Thanks for your answer!

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