From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 17: 6:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.beattie-home.net (219.164.200.216.fastpoint.net [216.200.164.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14EBB37B6A7 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:06:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from raven.pdx.beattie-home.net (raven.pdx.beattie-home.net [192.168.0.1]) by mail.beattie-home.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D06ACF8; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:22:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:07:39 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie X-Sender: beattie@raven.pdx.beattie-home.net To: Marvin McNett Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware serial connection In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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]. Brian Beattie | This email was produced using professional quality, beattie@beattie-home.net | standards based software. Users of Microsoft | products or other substandard software should www.beattie-home.net | contact the author about receiving a Free upgrade to | FreeBSD or Linux. "FreeBSD: The power to serve" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message