From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mikado Subject: Re: Virtual Serial Port Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:23:30 +0700 Message-ID: <4425FB22.7040405@gmail.com> References: <442582B8.8040403@gmail.com> Reply-To: mikado4vn@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > You could write a device driver implementing virtual serial ports. Then you > just add an ioctl that connects/disconnects virtual ports to real ports if > desired. > I do not quite see what this would be good for, but I am sure it's > good for learning or for fun. :) Hi Jan Engelhardt, My purpose is to provide serial interfaces for debugging. My real box acts as remote host connecting to VMWare box by a *virtual* serial cable so that I can set up a debugging environment. There are several solutions for this problem but they could only run on Windows. Eg: - - http://www.mks.zp.ua/vspdxp.php - - http://www.virtual-serial-port.com/virtual-serial-port-kit.html I'll buy an USB-to-Serial cable and a Serial-Serial cable to solve this problem but it's also interesting for me to write such device driver. I'll try it later. Mikado -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEJfshNWc9T2Wr2JcRAhPwAJ9d/eifASrLPvJwOy6A4sSxgzMc0gCcChrG rSL3gqaTWernckeKhfc+wqY= =wIb+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----