Correct and simply enabling the port in the properties of the RDP connection 
doesn’t get the job done.

In both Hyper-V Manager and SCVMM, you can set the properties of a VM’s COM 
port, but you have to use a named pipe, and I can’t for the life of me get that 
configured correctly

CFee
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of David McSpadden
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 9:59 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows 7 Hyper-V VM Com Port

So you are wanting your com port on your w7 machine to be accessible to the vm 
w7 machine through RDP.
Pretty sure I understand now and I don’t have an answer for that.
Enabling the comm port on the rdp session in other options would be my only 
response and I know that has been stated so.
I am not sure how to make that work for you.


From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carol Fee
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 9:47 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows 7 Hyper-V VM Com Port

W7 VM on W2012 R2 host
W7 workstation with COM 1 in use using RDP to connect to the VM

CFee
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David McSpadden
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 8:46 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows 7 Hyper-V VM Com Port

Is the W7 the host or the vm on the 2012 server?

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carol Fee
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 8:36 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows 7 Hyper-V VM Com Port

The port I need access to is on a W7 computer
Not
The host

CFee
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David McSpadden
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 8:05 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows 7 Hyper-V VM Com Port

In my VMWare environment I needed a USB to be accessed physically from the host.
This is done the vCenter and on the Host wear the VM will have to reside. (No 
vMotion for that VM)
This I allowed access to the Host USB port (Specific to the USB port not 
generic.)
This unfortunately allows all VM’s on that host to also access the USB port 
that is being passed through to the VM from the Host.
I think you are wanted a similar type of access for your VM.
Now I do know my application that requires the access to the VM USB port will 
not allow RDP sessions to access the USB port.
It knows that it is a RDP session and no matter what I do it laughes at me.  It 
also know if I am trying to access it with something like VNC.
It laughes even louder at me.
So, being the thin skinned admin that I am.  I access the VM through the 
vCenter Console and I ROFLMAO at the app while it gives me the access to the 
USB port as required of a physical box.
It has no idea I have it VM’d and I am accessing the host USB instead of a 
physical box’s USB.
So that being said I think you want to enable the COM port on the Host and 
allow access through the Host to the VM.
There the VM application so access the port as you are needing.
That is if I understand the situation you have described.


From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carol Fee
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 7:46 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows 7 Hyper-V VM Com Port

I’m not mapping it to the port on the host – to a port on a W7 RD client.

So …. W7 computer has something connected to COM 1 (serial connection for a 
card reader)
Card reader software is installed on W7 VM (hosted on W2012R2 Hyper-V)
I need to access the card reader software using Remote Desktop from the W7 
computer and have it see the connection to the hardware

I keep finding references to mapping com ports using named pipes, but I can’t 
figure out exactly how to do that

CFee
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew S. Baker
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 11:18 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows 7 Hyper-V VM Com Port

Not supported, last I checked:


2012 Datacenter redirecting com ports to my VM 
<https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/24414de8-505b-4573-9bcb-f6018aaa09c5/2012-datacenter-redirecting-com-ports-to-my-vm?forum=winserverhyperv>

It's not an official piece of software, it's not recommended or supported, and 
by using this you might put your Hyper-V server in an unsupported state. 
<https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/24414de8-505b-4573-9bcb-f6018aaa09c5/2012-datacenter-redirecting-com-ports-to-my-vm?forum=winserverhyperv>



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On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 10:59 AM, Carol Fee 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:

I have a W7 vm on a W2K12R2 host.  I need to connect COM 1 to the physical COM 
1 of a Windows 7 PC.  Can anyone out there help ?  TIA





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