Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 02:15:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: olli@lurza.secnetix.de Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qemu serial console Message-ID: <200604110015.k3B0FJIk022680@saturn.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <200604051404.k35E4QJw050394@lurza.secnetix.de>
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In article <200604051404.k35E4QJw050394@lurza.secnetix.de> you write: >Hi, > >I'm running the current version of qemu from the ports >collection (i.e. 0.8.0_5) with RELENG_6 (i.e. 6.1-BETA4) >on i386. Host and guest are both FreeBSD. > >Since the server is headless, I have to run qemu with >the -nographic switch. Basically that shouldn't be a >problem, because we're not using graphical applications. > >However, for out-of-band management, there must be a way >to connect to the console of the guest system. According >to the docs, "-serial stdio" should do the trick. But it >does not, it's simply dead (no output). Then I tried >"-serial file:foo", just to see if anything appears, but >the file is just one byte which is zero. :-( > >In the guest, I have enabled it in /etc/ttys: > > ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure > >And /dev/ttyd0 exists: > > crw------- 1 root wheel 0, 55 Apr 5 15:57 ttyd0 > >And the getty is indeed running: > > 417 ?? I 0:00.02 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyd0 > >But the tty is reported as "??". Shouldn't that be "d0"? > >There are no error messages in any log file or dmesg. >The virtual serial port is detected fine in the guest: > > sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 > sio0: type 16450 > >Am I doing anything wrong? What do I miss? Try ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire.9600" vt100 on secure > >Best regards > Oliver HTH, Juergen
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