Serial port unavailable under Windows even with --privileged flag

[remyleone]

Description

I got a device that talk over serial port. On Unix it shows up as a /dev/ttyUSB0, on Windows as a COM.
I would like to be able to talk to this serial device from a container running on top of Docker for Windows.

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Connect something that talk over a USB serial port to your Windows machine
2. docker run -it --privileged ubuntu ls /dev

Describe the results you received:

• There is no ttyUSB0

Describe the results you expected:

There should be a ttyUSB0 showing up

Additional information you deem important (e.g. issue happens only occasionally):

Output of docker version:

Client:
 Version:      17.06.0-ce
 API version:  1.30
 Go version:   go1.8.3
 Git commit:   02c1d87
 Built:        Fri Jun 23 21:30:30 2017
 OS/Arch:      windows/amd64

Server:
 Version:      17.06.0-ce
 API version:  1.30 (minimum version 1.12)
 Go version:   go1.8.3
 Git commit:   02c1d87
 Built:        Fri Jun 23 21:51:55 2017
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64
 Experimental: true

Output of docker info:

Containers: 6
 Running: 0
 Paused: 0
 Stopped: 6
Images: 3
Server Version: 17.06.0-ce
Storage Driver: overlay2
 Backing Filesystem: extfs
 Supports d_type: true
 Native Overlay Diff: true
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Plugins:
 Volume: local
 Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
 Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file logentries splunk syslog
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: runc
Default Runtime: runc
Init Binary: docker-init
containerd version: cfb82a876ecc11b5ca0977d1733adbe58599088a
runc version: 2d41c047c83e09a6d61d464906feb2a2f3c52aa4
init version: 949e6fa
Security Options:
 seccomp
  Profile: default
Kernel Version: 4.9.36-moby
Operating System: Alpine Linux v3.5
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 2
Total Memory: 973.8MiB
Name: moby
ID: TMWG:M7LS:5PG2:EZ4E:37KI:UGHT:OJIR:AVKU:V42E:GVNL:2GR4:QNJW
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug Mode (client): false
Debug Mode (server): true
 File Descriptors: 15
 Goroutines: 25
 System Time: 2017-08-18T09:09:52.1702444Z
 EventsListeners: 0
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
Experimental: true
Insecure Registries:
 127.0.0.0/8
Live Restore Enabled: false

[friism]

Thanks for opening this issue for tracking this feature request. We've had a few similar requests for USB device support. Currently this is not a design use-case for Docker for Windows.

You might be able to achieve what you want by setting up a separate hyper-v (or virtualbox) VM and installing Docker in that. That would give you more freedom to use hyper-v features like attaching special host-hardware and using it with Docker Linux containers.

You can even use Docker Machine to automate part of this process: https://docs.docker.com/machine/drivers/hyper-v/

[plagov]

Does this issue still persist? I'm also looking for a way to connect serial devices to containers in Docker for Windows.
@sieben did you find any working option for your use-case?

[remyleone]

Nope it doesn't seems to be an issue that is going to be solved soon. I've simply dropped using docker in this context and moved to something else. Le 17 nov. 2017 23:55, "Vitalii Plagov" <notifications@github.com> a écrit :

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Does this issue still persist? I'm also looking for a way to connect serial devices to containers in Docker for Windows. @sieben <https://github.com/sieben> did you find any working option for your use-case? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1018 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AASXIq-dYQ_ySN0g9H9RBUfAy8EjVOtkks5s3g7tgaJpZM4O796v> .

[adrianpanicek]

I would also love to have serial ports implemented in Docker For Windows.

[nistath]

There is high demand from people that want to use Docker for cross platform embedded toolchain environments. Maybe the Docker team should reconsider...

[stevebus]

I would definitely love to see this implemented. It will be a much more common request since Azure IoT Edge leverages docker containers for modules -> http://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-edge

[Moshik177]

Does this issue still persist? this issue is highly demanded by a lot of people

[rn]

Hyper-V does not seem to allow passing through local USB devices to a VM so we can't expose serial USB device or similar to the VM running linux containers

[guddu2112]

Any update on this issue? is it supported now? i was exploring for similar results on windows host.

[appcodr]

This feature is highly desired to use with Azure IoT Edge. Is this going to be implemented soon?