I’ve configured serial consoles in the past, and have found them particularly useful for network gear. In the case of network gear. sometimes a serial console is the only way to remotely manage the appliance. am curious as to the benefits of serial consoles versus the ILO/ILOM/DRAC technologies available on modern servers. I’m having this … Read more
Old question, but it might still interest people. Short anwser : qemu -nographic -serial mon:stdio -append ‘console=ttyS0’ binary.img ttyS0 valid on most PC. it would be something different on ARM system. Then the serial port and the QEMU are multiplexed on your output. You can switch between them with ctrl-A + C + ENTER. Long … Read more
The program you’re looking for is called “setserial”. http://linux.die.net/man/8/setserial
There are a few options: sersniff is a simple program to tunnel/sniff between 2 serial ports. Serial to Network Proxy (ser2net) provides a way for a user to connect from a network connection to a serial port. SerialSpy acts as a serial pass-through device. It listens for incoming data on two serial ports and forwards … Read more
Wow, well, what you want is called Emergency Management Services (EMS) redirection. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff542282(v=vs.85).aspx And it works on modern versions of Windows. In XP/2003, enabling it would look like bootcfg /ems on /port com1 /baud 9600 /id 1 On Windows Vista/2008+ it is enabled by typing the following command where {default} is the OS entry in … Read more