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Newer page: version 2 Last edited on Monday, 31 January 2011 4:41:44 by CyberLeo Revert
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-VirtualBox creates serial ports as unix domain sockets, which cannot be used with terminal emulators. 
+~ VirtualBox creates serial ports as unix domain sockets, which cannot be used with terminal emulators. 
 Use socat to bind them to ptys, and Gnu Screen can deal with them just fine. 
  
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 VBoxManage modifyvm <vmname> --uartmode1 server ~/.VirtualBox/serial/<vmname>-S0 # or 1 for uart 2 

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VirtualBox creates serial ports as unix domain sockets, which cannot be used with terminal emulators. Use socat to bind them to ptys, and Gnu Screen can deal with them just fine.

VBoxManage modifyvm <vmname> --uartmode1 server ~/.VirtualBox/serial/<vmname>-S0 # or 1 for uart 2
VBoxManage startvm <vmname>
socat ~/.VirtualBox/serial/<vmname>-S0 pty,link=~/.VirtualBox/serial/<vmname>-S0.pty

In screen, attach to serial port using screen command entry mode

screen ~/.VirtualBox/serial/<vmname>-S0.pty