[Vm-dev] Serial ports on Linux

[Markus Lampert]

Hi Bill,

haven't used the serial interface with the new VMs (yet), but previously under 
Linux I had to use the vm option '-notimer'. I did not find any negative side 
effects with that option.

Hope this helps,
Markus



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> Subject: [Vm-dev] Serial ports on Linux
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> I have been able to do serial I/O on Windows, but not Linux.  Running  in a 
>terminal to capture output yields "Error while saving old state" while  trying 
>to open just about any number or name I can think of (including 0 and  
>/dev/ttyS0), but the open method gives no indication that there is a problem; it  
>returns a perfectly valid looking serial port with the #port set to whatever it  
>was given.
> 
> Subsequent reads fail, and are probably a bit more honest  about what is 
>happening: "Error while reading: serial port is not open."  I  am not sure 
>whether that is always the case, but it certainly is on this machine  when I try 
>/dev/ttyUSB0, which does not exist here.
> 
> Any  ideas?
> 
> Bill
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