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#FREEBSD MINICOM HOW TO#
#FREEBSD MINICOM SERIAL#
#FREEBSD MINICOM CODE#

This socket can then be used as a "virtual reverse telnet" connection.

#FREEBSD MINICOM SERIAL#

In some cases some form of reverse telnet or SSH connection is used alternatively, an additional level of indirection can be interposed: the server provides a Serial over LAN service via IPMI, and a command-line utility connects to the server. Modern day setups (generally) use separate management Ethernet networks and console servers. The conserver was written to be used with RS-232 serial wired multi-port cards. Bryan Stansell later merged the forks with most features and added TCP Wrapper access control, SSL encryption, UDS networking and PAM authentication support as well as accepting patches submitted by others. This forked into different versions (generally v8.) used by Sun Microsystems, IBM, and numerous others.

#FREEBSD MINICOM CODE#

Those authors assumed that Fine's code was based on their version, so forked Fine's code, modified it and released it as version 8. A similar program had previously been written at Purdue University. "Console server" as it was originally known, was written by Tom Fine, and was presented with source code to the world at large during LISA IV, in Colorado Springs in 1990.

5.2 Console Server and Adapter References.

This is what I meant by throwing your hands up. When I said the FreeBSD version doesn't touch serial ports, I meant that it doesn't touch the source that virtualbox uses to talk to serial ports (i.e., the source code is straight from Oracle). But the layer between them that VirtualBox provides isn't working quite right. I'm not asking to fix Windows, or Linux, or FreeBSD. I compared the patches with, for example, minicom, an app solely for accessing serial ports (and their analogues), and they didn't need anything regarding serial ports either, almost straight from source. It consists of 51 files, mostly centered around editing the makefiles to turn on flags and specifying where certain dependencies should go. I've read the the "who knows what they've added" source tree. Put another way, you're telling me that despite the fact that application x, y, z, f1, and pz83 can access COM 1 natively, yet Virtualbox cannot, then it's an OS issue? See that's the problem, since I can access the serial port using standard tools using the same interfaces that (theoretically) Virtualbox does. Since the FreeBSD folks build their own version, there is no way to know what they've added, changed, left out, etc. If it doesn't then it is likely that the FreeBSD build of VirtualBox has an issue.

#FREEBSD MINICOM HOW TO#

It is not a how to I do/fix something in Windows, OSX, Linux or BSD forum.Įdit: In theory, a VM should behave just as it does if the OS was running on metal. This forum is a VirtualBox support forum. If you are correct that the FreeBSD version of VirtualBox doesn't touch the serial ports of FreeBSD then it's not a VirtualBox question, it's a FreeBSD question. Instead of throwing your hands up, can you provide some suggestions? To my knowledge, the Ports version of Virtualbox doesn't even touch the serial port portion at all (it's mostly the network stack afaik). Let's pretend I'm having an issue with the serial port on a Linux machine (perhaps Debian?), accessing from /dev/ttyAMA0

So, let's pretend I didn't say the dreaded "FreeBSD" eh? Unfortunately there's no help there either.

Loukingjr wrote:your question would have a better chance of being answered on the FreeBSD forums.