On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 02:47:41AM +0100, viq wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 March 2006 02:27, Steve Shockley wrote:
> > viq wrote:
> > > I'm playing with OpenBSD in a virtual machine (VMWare) on my linux box.
> > > The box has two CPUs, so every once in a while I try to set the machine
> > > to have two as well - which every singe time ends in a crash after some
> > > time. Any hints as to how I could get the trace etc out of it short of
> > > typing it all on the 'real' computer? Or is that error unlikely to be a
> > > sign of a real problem?
> >
> > I know using GSX for Windows you can save all the serial output to a
> > file (on the host), then set the guest's console to output to serial.
> > Of course that doesn't help you type "trace" and "ps", but maybe there's
> > a way to automate that output.
>
> There is an option for the serial line to be connected to a named
> pipe. Now if I only knew what to do with that information ;)
'mkfifo fifo && tee log < fifo & cat > fifo' would be the easiest
solution, if the above was not written in jest.
Joachim
