How to connect to Serial port on board

To connect to the serial port on the target board from the VM you need to do two things:

1. Set rules in VM to give normal user permission (extracted from StackOverflow) this creates a new file. a. sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/50-myusb.rules b. Add this to the file:

KERNEL=="ttyUSB[0-9]*",MODE="0666"
KERNEL=="ttyACM[0-9]*",MODE="0666"

c. Save and exit

2. Connect the USB in VirtualBox to the VM a. Open the VM in VirtualBox - you may need to take it out of headless mode to do this b. From Devices menu -> USB -> Check "ARM DAPLink ..."