Re: IOS XRv !!

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Tom Kacprzynski <tom.kac_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Finally got it working on a MAC! I used VirtualBox instead of QEMU. I think
> Yuri was right about the different hardware support for virtualization
> between QEMU and Virtual Box. The biggest problem was running the serial
> connection on VirtualBox. On Unix and MAC it uses socat to make the serial
> to TCP connection. On Windows it uses putty. Socat is easily available on
> unix, but on MACs you have to download it separately, compile it and then
> make sure it's in the path to be recognized.

I got it working in the same timeframe on a Mac, but using VMware
Fusion. There too you must use socat to get console access. Note that
instead of recompiling socat yourself, you could have simply used the
macports package (<http://www.macports.org/>).

Once the VM is installed, add a serial port, then edit the .vmx file
and replace serial0.fileType = "file" by serial0.fileType = "pipe".

Then "socat -d -d /path/to/serialFile PTY", and finally "screen
/dev/ttys001" (check the output of socat, which may indicate another
line than ttys001).

-Thomas

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