Hmm, I’m at a bit of a loss here. My OpenHab install is running on hyper-v (Along with several other machines).
Hyper-V as far as I can tell does not support Com Port pass through so I’m at an utter loss how I’m going to allow ubuntu (openhabs host os) to see the stick.
I suspect I only have a few options:
switch hypervisor. There is a good chance something else will support com pass through, but it would have to run side by side with hyper-v since I have a lot of other machines running on there
find something that will expose the com port to tcp, and then a linux program that will connect to the tcp socket and export it as a com port…
I’m using VMWare esxi with OpenHab running on a Ubuntu VM and pass through my USB stick just fine. I would think most Hyper-V’s should allow the pass thru as well.
I’m not that familiar with Win Server2008. But perhaps this article will help you. I think its talking about Windows Server and adding a SCSI controller to the VM and adding the USB drive as a hard disk?
Telnetting into the “virtual com port” gives me this when I toggle the switch. No idea if thats right (when I see gibberish like that it normally means I have the baud wrong, but everything I can see suggests 115200 is correct).
I am using XenServer and have the same problem as you. It seems that VMWare ESX server is the only major hypervisor to support serial port pass-through. I remain amazed at this because of things like hardware devices and dongles that are needed to run so many things in environments which are increasingly virtualized.