Parallels Workstation ist unable to exclusively lock /dev/ttyS0

Hi forum,

I'm using Paralles Workstation on Ubuntu 7.04 and tried to use a serial port in the virtual machine. Unfortunately Parallels complains when I start a virtual machine:

"Serial port 1 disabled becaues Parallels Workstation is unable to exclusively lock the port to this virtual machine."

I tried /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyUSB0 (both are existing and working serial ports) but get the same error message.

Any idea how to get it work?

Thanks,
Hermann

 

unable to exclusively lock /dev/ttyS0

Forum,

I'm having this problem too, with both Fedora and Ubuntu. I've tried everything including disabling services, changing device permissions, etc. I do have a modem on the port and can talk to it through minicom using /dev/ttyS0. What did I miss? Please assist.

Thanks,
drr

 

I solved it myself!

YES! It works just great with Vmware. Anybody want to buy a Parallels license, cheap? Write to [email protected]

I'm outta here.