more than 2 serial ports?

imalipusram · Post by **imalipusram** » 2. Feb 2009, 13:09

Dear experts,

I would like to use more than 2 serial ports within VirtualBox (windows 2000 professional guest system) under OpenSuse11.1.

I have a 4xserial pci card installed (UART 16550A) and the ports are mapped at /dev/ttyS5..8, IRQ18 and addresses 0xec00, 0xe880, 0xe800 and 0xe480.

I tried to simply add the ports as new entries in the .xml configuration file, but when I attempt to start the guest system, there are error messages.

Is there any way to make this work?

Thanks for your help!

Wolfgang

Post by **Sasquatch** » 2. Feb 2009, 20:27

Not at the moment. The devs need to add support for more serial ports. You can create a bug report so it get's more attention. See http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Bugtracker/ for more info. You do need a separate account for it though.