Hello,
I would like to send data to the virtual serial port provided by Vmware. Actually, my laptop is not equipped with a physical serial port, that's not a problem since I use the file option available in VmWare (Setting->Add->Serial Port -> Use output file)
The file is in the same root folder of my virtual machine and has been created by VmWare after the first configuration of the serial port.
I also checked the vmaware BIOS which has the AUTO option for the serial port, thus it should detect the serial port automatically.
When I perform a redirection on the serial port something like
Code:
echo "hello" > /dev/ttyS0
I receive no errors, but if I read from the serial port
the command gets stuck and the file used from Vmware
to log the data to the serial port is empty.
I also tried to use the command
Code:
setserial -g /dev/ttyS0
before starting to write with the echo command
setserial prompts the message:
Code:
/dev/ttyS0, UART:16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
(apparently correct).
my system configuration is:
VmWare 7.1.13 running on Windows 7 (host system)
Linux 2.6.24 (guest)
Any help?