Re: IOS XRv !!

On a Mac you could always run ESXi inside Fusion and not bother recompiling
stuff.You'd need a bit more memory, but it may be worth the hassle, since
you can do all the other stuff ESXi can :-)

-Marko.

P.S. I've got 16 XRvs running on one of our test servers. It's pretty fun
playing around with them :-).

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Thomas Perrier <thomas_at_perrier.name>wrote:

> 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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