Serial console with VMWare

Published 3 years, 5 months ago in Linux. 2 Comments Tags: , , .

In your config file of virtual machine you need the following:

# grep serial openwrt.vmx
serial0.present = "TRUE"
serial0.fileType = "pipe"
serial0.fileName = "./serial1"
serial0.pipe.endPoint = "server"
serial0.hardwareFlowControl = "TRUE"

Redirect output to stdio or a port:

# socat <path_to_virtual_machine_dir>/serial1 <stdio |tcp4-listen:<port>>

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  • Yoichi Takayama
    1 year, 10 months ago.

    I think that my last message did not get through. so I am sorry if this is double-posted.

    Great article, but it still does not work for me. Can you help?

    $ socat ./serial1 tcp4-listen:9988
    (it just waits)
    (in another shell)
    $ telnet 127.0.0.1 9988
    rying 127.0.0.1…
    Connected to 127.0.0.1.
    Escape character is ‘^]’.
    Connection closed by foreign host.

    $ socat UNIX-CONNECT:./serial1 tcp4-listen:9988
    2008/09/18 15:09:06 socat[4499] E connect(3, AF=1 “./serial1″, 11): Connection refused

    $ socat UNIX-LISTEN:./serial1 tcp4-listen:9988
    2008/09/18 15:22:37 socat[5518] E bind(3, {AF=1 “./serial1″}, 11): Address already in use

    and I have no idea how to “disconnect” it.

    The socat manual is long but it is not clear how to. Also it says that it won’t accept the 2nd connection. So does it mean this behaviour???

    Thanks,
    Yoichi

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