﻿id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host
6115,Connect/Disconnect Serial ports (uart) on-the-fly via controlvm -> fixed in 6.0,Jim Ramsay,,"There doesn't seem to be any way to connect or disconnect Serial Devices on-the-fly.

Obviously I cannot add a *new* serial port while a VM is running, but I would expect that I should be able to change an existing serial port from ""disconnected"" to ""server"" to ""client"" to ""file"" to a raw device whenever I like, just like I can already simulate a network cable disconnect via the GUI or 'VBoxManage controlvm setlinkstate'

This is important to me because I often have my laptop connected to a docking station, and to undock I must close all open COM ports -> Having a uart configured in a runnig VM counts as ""open"", so I must shut down my VMs before I can undock my PC.  This is of course less than optimal.

With VMWare I could simply mark the serial port as ""disconnected"" before undocking: To the Guest it appears that I pulled out the serial cable, no input, no output.  The host would of course close the COM port and allow me to undock.",enhancement,closed,uart,VirtualBox 3.1.0,fixed,disconnect controlvm,,Linux,Windows
