Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:07:39 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie <beattie@beattie-home.net> To: Marvin McNett <mmcnett@ucsd.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware serial connection Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101171705340.18161-100000@raven.pdx.beattie-home.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1010117145557.4175J-100000@kimba.ucsd.edu>
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On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Marvin McNett wrote:
> Has anyone using vmware on freebsd managed to establish a serial
> connection between the host and guest operating systems? In particular,
> what devices should I be using on the respective machines and in the
> vmware configuration editor? I'd like to try using remote gdb between the
> host and guest machines, but can't seem to get a serial connection
> established. Perhaps this is not possible, but I haven't found
> information about it one way or the other.
>
I have been using FreeBSD to communicate with my vr3, both for flashing
and ppp. The device you should use depends on what hardware device you
use. it will be /dev/cuaa[0-3].
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