You will be able to view and analyze the activity history of the virtual machine any time you need by exploring this file. If you need to log the performance activity of your virtual machine or to record the data from it and use this information later on, you can connect your virtual machine serial port to an output file on the physical computer. It means that the working modes of the sockets set during the port creation can be changed later in the Serial Port pane. The connection between the virtual machines via serial ports is bidirectional. The names of the serial ports should be identical. If you want to connect two virtual machines with each other, you need to create a serial port emulated by a socket in each virtual machine. To do that, use the Devices menu in the Mac menu bar. To be able to use it in the host computer, you should first disconnect it from the virtual machine. The connected device, being used in any virtual machine, cannot be used by the host computer. The Source list comprises the devices on the host computer that are available for connection. If you want to connect your virtual machine to the host computer device, you should create a serial port emulated by a real port. Between two virtual machines located on the same host computer (using a socket).

The virtual machine and the host computer devices (using a real port) or.Using serial ports, you can establish a connection between:

For detailed information on how to add a device, refer to Adding and Removing Devices. Note: If this device is absent, you can add it to Virtual Machine Configuration.

In the Virtual Machine Configuration dialog, click Hardware and select this device name in the sidebar.

Or if the Parallels Desktop menu bar is visible at the top of the screen, choose Actions > Configure.

Click the Parallels icon in the menu bar and choose Configure.

To edit the device settings, do the following: In the Serial Port pane, you can configure the virtual machine serial port settings.

Serial port on a computer