Mcu Serial Port

When I try to open the serial port in this Simulide/share/examples/arduino-file I see this:



I've been watching some Simulide video's and the Simulide micro controller tutorial. And on the sourceforge forum like this one:
https://sourceforge.net/p/simulide/discussion/feature/thread/e8b98966/
At Port Name I tried /tmp/ttyS1, no result.

I have nothing connected to my windows10 computer, I would like to have it only virtual. Please some advise what to do next. I read about downloading com0com software? 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/com0com/

Before I do that I want to be sure that for example my printer can't connect anymore over a usb-port because it is messed up by lack of knowledge from my part. 
I hope this topic will be usefull for other readers as well. In the mean time I'll do some more searching. Thanks.

I think I've found it, with the help of this Simulide-video, from minute 05:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVBgmah6gE0



What I did not know is that there is extra software needed to make this connection. If this is correct please add that information to the Microcontroller tutorial. I used this Eltima Software:
https://www.virtual-serial-port.org/nl/articles/com-port-on-windows-10/
It takes 12.5 Mb space and is not free, I am using the trial. It looks like this:




At first I did get some Simulide Bargraph_serial 'not responding' but the connection is established and it's going better now. It seems to take some processing power, my computer fan is running overtime so I closed other programs.

Open Serial Port just connects to an existing serial port in your computer.
You just must provide a valid serial port name/path.

What I did not know is that there is extra software needed to make this connection.

You don't need extra software to connect to a serial port.
If you want to create virtual serial ports you might need to use some sotware.
But that is external to simulide and depends on your OS and which sofware you choose.

There is a topic about virtual serial ports here:
https://simulide.forumotion.com/t13-connection-of-multiple-simulide-applications-in-win10

Just figured this out myself last night, searching for the same thing.
On linux I used this that I found on another forum.

socat -d -d pty,raw,echo=0 pty,raw,echo=0
Output on mine showed ports
2021/05/10 19:09:09 socat[6188] N PTY is /dev/pts/1
2021/05/10 19:09:09 socat[6188] N PTY is /dev/pts/2
2021/05/10 19:09:09 socat[6188] N starting data transfer loop with FDs [5,5] and [7,7]

On windows 10 I used Com0Com and used the ports it defined on install CNCA# CNCB# This was on a virtual machine using virtualbox. Saw a post from 2020, that com0com wasn't working correctly for secure boot. It may have been fixed, but I haven't tried it yet.

Check your ports in Device Manager (in Windows ) or in /dev/tty* in linux.