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# VZSerialPortAttachment

The common behaviors for the serial attachment points of your virtual machine.

```
class VZSerialPortAttachment
```

## Overview

Don’t create a [`VZSerialPortAttachment`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZSerialPortAttachment) object directly. Instead, instantiate a concrete subclass such as [`VZFileHandleSerialPortAttachment`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZFileHandleSerialPortAttachment) to configure how the virtual machine’s serial port connects with the host computer.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`CVarArg`](/documentation/Swift/CVarArg)

[`CustomStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomStringConvertible)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`CustomDebugStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomDebugStringConvertible)

[`NSObjectProtocol`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObjectProtocol)

### Inherited By

[`VZFileHandleSerialPortAttachment`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZFileHandleSerialPortAttachment)

[`VZSpiceAgentPortAttachment`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZSpiceAgentPortAttachment)

[`VZFileSerialPortAttachment`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZFileSerialPortAttachment)

### Inherits From

[`NSObject-swift.class`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObject-swift.class)

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