Disabling COM and LPT from the Virtual Machine BIOS

1. Power on the virtual machine.
2. Immediately click in the virtual machine window to place focus there.
3. Press F2 when you see the VMware logo.
   
4. Arrow right to choose the Advanced tab.
5. Arrow down to I/O Device Configuration and pressEnter.
6. Arrow down or up to highlight a device in the list. Shift-+ to change that device to Disabled.

change the default to have all LPT/COM ports disabled. They take resources and after deploying few servers it gets annoying to disable on a per server basis.