Hi Guys, I hope someone can help me with this, as I guess it is a fairly common operation. I want to (using screen or putty or securecrt) connect to the serial console of XRv running in VMware Workstation 12 running on Ubuntu 16.04. I've done it in Virtualbox on Windows with //./pipe/test, but not sure how to create the named pipe in VMware workstation on Linux. I tried using the /dev/ttyS0, but there are issues with that. I need to edit the.vmxf file? My options are: Use socket (named pipe): [here I enter] /dev/ttyS0 From: [options are:] (Server Client) [I put Server] To: [options are:] (A Virtual Machine An Application) [I put An Application].I get this message when I start XRv: A virtual serial port (serial0) is trying to connect to pipe '/dev/ttyS0', which already exists.If I choose to overwrite, I get this: Virtual device serial0: Cannot unlink '/dev/ttyS0'. The device will be disconnected.

Descargar El Libro Nacho Pdf Download. Help and instructions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Greg.

Oct 12, 2017 Welcome to Cisco Support Community. Help with Named Serial Pipe for XRv in VMware. For that serial so that you can connect putty to the 'com' port. Putty 0.60 work very well in this config, simply enter the pipe path as serial port name, eg:. Pipe com_1, then click open, and you got a fancy serial. Rats In New York.

Hi greg, you probably want to edit the config file for the virtual machine and add a serial with a reverse telnet so that you can tcp connect to the virtual serial port. Datacard Imagecard Select Ps Driver there. Having the virtual machine create a 'fake' serial port requires some drivers and tricks to create a new hardware reference for that serial so that you can connect putty to the 'com' port (or /dev/ttySx). Having it with a reverse telnet allows you to connect to the console from pretty much anywhere and is I think a little easier to manage/handle from that standpoint. One other thing I wanted to point out is that if you start the virtual machine, the vmachine console stays black or only prints a single line or so (or very minimal). The XR booting process can be followed via that serial. Cheers xander.

Hi xander, Have you ever gone through the process of getting the vm to create the /dev/ttySx port, or have a link or two I can look. I'd like to learn this method also. It is surprising to me that making a named serial pipe work on a windows system seems easier than doing it with linux. Maybe it is not really harder with linux, but I just don't know the steps and windows is automating some things that in linux require specific configuration. I might take this discussion up on a vmware or linux/ubuntu forum since I am interested in being able to created named serial pipes to VMs in linux.

Regards, Greg. Hi greg, yeah here are a few steps, it is not as useful as the telnet we just created, but if you like the VM to spawn a /dev/ttySx on your linux host, thisi s what you need to do: Right-click VM in Library >Settings. In the hardware tab 'Add', choose serial port Select the output type to be a pipe A name needs to start with backslash backslash dot pipe followed by a name:. Pipe mypipe Choose 'This end is the server' Choose 'The other end is a virtual machine' Tick Connect at power on (or not) Power on the vmdk Start a termserver on the host, like hyperterm, putty, screen, something:) Point the select Serial to the pipe name you defined earlier. It may also be easier to edit the config file of the virtual machine and enter that pipe there.