﻿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
