From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 17:35:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postal.ucsd.edu (postal.ucsd.edu [132.239.51.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9F537B401 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:35:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from kimba.ucsd.edu (mmcnett@kimba.ucsd.edu [132.239.55.131]) by postal.ucsd.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA00591 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:35:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (mmcnett@localhost) by kimba.ucsd.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA05198 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:35:24 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: kimba.ucsd.edu: mmcnett owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:35:24 -0800 (PST) From: Marvin McNett To: 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 Yes, but that would be through an actual physical connection. It seems to be a bit different establishing such a connection with a virtual machine running on top of my OS. I've tried using /dev/cuaa0 as the device in the configuration editor, but it didn't seem to work. On the other hand, I'm not sure if I'm properly testing to see that the serial connection has been established (I tried minicom to no avail). Perhaps someone could tell me how to do that as well. Is it possible to simply cat a file to the device on one end and read it on the other? If so, how? Thanks, Marvin On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Brian Beattie wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message