Vmware Serial Named Pipe Putty

I have a device that I need to program through a serial port. The problem is my laptop doesn't a serial port. I do however have a serial-to-USB cable that I can plug in. I can then set it to use COM1. So to program the device in question I have to boot to a floppy drive and run the programming application in a DOS environment. In order for the serial-to-USB cable driver to work I have to have Windows running.

Inner City Big Fun Acapella Downloads. You can set up the virtual serial ports in two virtual machines to connect to. Select Output to named pipe. Radical Evolution By Joel Garreau Pdf Reader. VMware Workstation Player; VMware Fusion (for the. Connecting to a VM using 'Serial Port Over the Network. You can also use a host-side named pipe to set up a. More information on that can be seen in VMware. When you add a serial port to a virtual machine, you can use a physical serial port on the host, an output file, or a named pipe. Jan 09, 2008 Named Pipe TCP Proxy - utility which provides access to named pipes on Windows (special files with names built using the following rule - 'named pipe' mappings. To access certain named pipe you need to create such a mapping and then connect to assigned tcp port using any terminal client program.

To work around this problem I thought I could use a virtual machine in Hyper-V or VirtualBox that could map a serial port to a named pipe. Here's where I'm getting confused. It would seem like what I need to do is somehow serve my COM1 port to a named pipe on my laptop. I could then point the virtual machine to that named pipe. I see how to point the virtual machine to a named pipe. I just don't see how to 'serve' that named pipe from my laptop.

I've read around about creating named pipes and such, but I still don't see how to map my COM1 port to the named pipe so I can then in turn connect to it with a virtual machine. Is this possible to do? Is my thought process flawed? Interesting information in those links.