The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to vmware.for-linux.experimental as well.
Hi out there, Upgrading to VMware 3.1.1 build 1790 (old was some 2.x version) left me in the rain with support for COMs hooked on UNIX ptys, talking to a terminal emulation on Linux (Debian 3.0, kernel 2.4.18-686). Either I'm too dumb to configure the stuff correctly or new VMware forget about pty support. My setup (expected for 3.x and working with 2.x): terminal emulation on /dev/ptypf VMware on TTY /dev/ttypf What I tried with 3.1.1: a) configure VMware's Serial Port as `Device' on /dev/ttypf Result: Error about /dev/ttypf not being a terminal Is VMware's checking to restrictive for ptys? b) hacked with Serial Port as `File' Result: Am I crazy or do I need some more u**x lessons (;-) this time not given by me), apparently failing. c) config'ed Serial Port as `Pipe' Result: What came out here is a AF_UNIX socket, which made me furiously hacking a program for socket<->pty transfer, eventually making my setup work. VMware VM <-> s2p <-> Terminal Emulation However, my intention was to hack on GRUB - the target under test in the VM - not on VMware, and I hope VMware's engineers missed to think about ptys and didn't leave them out on purpose. If somebody is interested in `s2p', she can get the source from me, but I do hope this mail is accepted as a bug report against missing pty support and the issue is being fixed in next releases. K -- Klaus Reichl email: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub