when enabling COM port as Host Device on Solaris host machine in any Guest it prints out the error VERR_PDM_DRIVER_NOT_FOUND
output of:
#VBoxManage showvminfo test
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.6.2
(C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Name: test
Guest OS: OpenSolaris
UUID: dae0987b-2957-4aa5-d385-d80bf105d567
Config file: /root/.VirtualBox/Machines/test/test.xml
Memory size: 512MB
VRAM size: 8MB
Boot menu mode: message and menu
ACPI: on
IOAPIC: off
PAE: off
Time offset: 0 ms
Hardw. virt.ext: off
State: powered off (since 2008-07-18T00:22:01.726000000)
Monitor count: 1
Floppy: empty
SATA: disabled
Primary master: /root/.VirtualBox/VDI/test.vdi (UUID: 30f09791-8463-4312-3a96-ac7bbc53bb49)
DVD: empty
NIC 1: MAC: 00144FFFFFFE, Attachment: NAT, Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: Am79C973, Reported speed: 0 Mbps
NIC 2: disabled
NIC 3: disabled
NIC 4: disabled
UART 1: I/O base: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4, attached to device '/devices/isa/asy@1,3f8:a'
UART 2: disabled
Audio: disabled (Driver: Unknown, Controller: Unknown)
Clipboard Mode: Bidirectional
VRDP: disabled
USB: disabled
USB Device Filters:
<none>
Shared folders: <none>
Guest:
Statistics update: disabled
important line:
UART 1: I/O base: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4, attached to device '/devices/isa/asy@1,3f8:a'
changing it to /dev/term/a or /dev/ttya doesn't help running as root also didn't help. Looks like it is not recognized on solaris.
