Re: Virtual Serial Port

Mikado
2006-03-27T03:25:31Z

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Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> Although it is quite irrelevant to LKML (you may want to visit
> www.vmware.com/community/index.jspa and ask there...), you can connect
> guest's serial port also to Unix socket - and in such situation you need
> virtual serial port driver only if 'host - application' does not know
> how to use /dev/tty* (for unix socket <-> /dev/ptyp* app look at
> http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/serpipe.tar.gz).
> Petr

Thank Petr. It also works well. That program acts as a data proxy
between unix socket and /dev/ptyp*. Yesterday I wrote a similar program
that read/write vmware's server unix sock then forward/backward data
to/from /dev/ptyp0 but it didn't work. Maybe my program has problem.
Thanks again.

Mikado
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