Serial Port not connecting

Hello,

i'm trying to connect two Windows VM's to be able to debug a driver in one of them. The two guests are Windows 7 x64 SP1(debugger), and the other is a Windows XP SP3 (debugged).

I configure in both machines under "Virtual Machine -> Configure... -> Hardware" a new Serial Port. Both use a new socket named "winxpcom1", the Win7 debugger configures its mode as "Client" and the debugged WinXP as "Server".

Anyway, whenever i start any of those virtual machines, i always get the same message "Unable to connect the serial port 1. The connection status for this device is set to Disconnected. The socket required by the serial port 1 is used by another process or you do not have the permission to access it. The virtual machine will continue running, but the serial port will be disconnected."

I'm running Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac Build 9.0.24229 on a OS X 10.9.3.

Thanks!

 

Hi Slevin,

We suggest you to uninstall & re-install Parallels Desktop 9 application and check how it goes.

Please uninstall Parallels Desktop as suggested at http://kb.parallels.com/116992

Please download & re-install Parallels Desktop from this link : http://www.parallels.com/directdownload/pd9

Let us know if you have any additional questions.

 

Thank you for the fast reply.

Sadly, i've followed your instructions but the problem persists...

 

Hello yandroskaos,

Please generate a Problem report ID and provide us the problem report number. Follow the steps as suggested at http://kb.parallels.com/9058 to create a problem report ID.

Note: Please regenerate the issue and Generate report ID.

 

Are there any updates?

 

Updates to what version you are interested in?
I can confirm that debugging works on PDM10.
Also I could add a notice that VM with debugger running must be "server", and the debugged VM is "client"
Also, I suppose there must be absolute path to pipe, i.e. "/tmp/com_1" for example.
And the third notice, the could be difficulties while debugging Windows XP. Debugger may not establish connection every time, so, please try several times at least.