<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Ramnarayan.K <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ramnarayan.k@gmail.com">ramnarayan.k@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Pawan Sood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pawansood@gmail.com" target="_blank">pawansood@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div><br> </div></div>Have you checked the following ?<br> <a href="http://techtooltip.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/using-host-serial-port-from-guest-in-virtual-box/" target="_blank">http://techtooltip.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/using-host-serial-port-from-guest-in-virtual-box/</a><br> <div><div></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div>checked out and did the enabling but after that i get this error , guest os ( which is windows 7) does not even start up.<br><br>Virtual Box error<br><br> Failed to start the virtual machine Vince<br>Failed to open host device 'COM3' (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND).<br>Unknown error creating VM (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)<br></blockquote></div><br>am wondering if the real error is else where<br> <br>the device i want to use is a phone (land line - as a fax front end) and this means connecting the phone via the phone line adapter (RJ 11) this lies alongside the ethernet port. So is it possible i have to enable it differently <br> <br>ram<br>