On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Aaron J. Marks wrote:
> i''d like to attach a serial console from a linux host to a vm
running xen
> inside vmware 5. i attempted to get this to work using an old xen-devel
> post, but couldn''t get it. is there a how-to floating around
anywhere?
okay, i got serial output to a file to work, but can''t seem to make an
interactive serial connection to xen. here''s what i did:
1) compiled xen with env var ''debugger'' set to
''y''
2) added ''com1=9600,8n1'' to xen boot line
3) set virtual com1 in vmware to named pipe ("this end is
client"/"other
end is app") called /tmp/xen-com1.
4) ran socat on host machine:
socat UNIX-LISTEN:/tmp/xen-com1,unlink-early,fork pty,link=/tmp/com1
to convert pipe to pty.
(both the pipe and the pty appear in /tmp)
5) booted xen in vmware (at some point, it stops sending output to vmware
-- a good sign)
6) connected to /tmp/com1 with kermit:
kermit -b 9600 -l /tmp/com1
7) typed ^A^A^A then ''h'', but got no response.
what did i miss?
thanks,
-A.
> ideally, i''d like to attach gdb to xen, but that may be asking too
much.
>
> thanks,
> -A.
>
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> Aaron Marks
> Distributed Systems Lab
> University of Pennsylvania
> www.cis.upenn.edu/~ajmarks
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