Setting Up serial port in VirtualBox on windows

I just have enough USB to serial converter which will fail occasionally.
So , I decided to put aside some money to buy a PCI-e to RS232.

Bought this board from All-IT digital mall.
desktop-pci-serial

Once installed , the windows machine detected it accordingly.

serial

which represented as COM5 and COM6.

Now to add this to VirtualBox, In setting just need to specify the host device as COM5 and mapped to virtual O/S serial.

host-device

and inside the box, we would be able to access as normal port. /dev/ttyS0 on CentOS 6.

minicom-ttyS0

yay!

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3 Responses

  1. casiemec says:

    This rather good idea is necessary just by the way

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  2. TheN2S says:

    I was wondering if I can use this for my wordpress 2.9.2 site. I simply want to mirror/sync/backup all my newly UPLOADED files to a new BACKUP website. (I don’t want to wait for the cron job to kick in)

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  3. Madelyn Monoz says:

    I love what you guys are up too. Such clever work and exposure! Keep up the good works guys I’ve added you guys to blogroll.

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