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Re: qemu redirecting guest output in terminal



Hi,

On 10/28/2018 6:37 PM, Reco wrote:
> 	Hi.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 05:51:13PM +0100, john doe wrote:
>> On 10/26/2018 4:44 PM, Reco wrote:
>>> Nah, we don't do Windows here. Way too many quirks for my personal
>>> taste.
>>> What you can try is to replace stdio with telnet:
>>>
>>> qemu -hda debian.img -m 1024 \
>>> 	-chardev socket,id=tty0,port=5555,server,telnet \
>>> 	-serial chardev:tty0 -nographic \
>>> 	-kernel vmlinux -append 'console=ttyS0,115200n8' \
>>> 	-initrd initrd.gz
>>>
>>> Port 5555 is just an example, obviously.
>>> And you'll need telnet, but since you're using Cygwin you should got it
>>> covered.
>>>
>>
>> While trying the above command, I get an error probably because I didn't
>> install the telnet package on Cygwin.
> 
> No, it was because I left out one argument that did not have a default
> value. This should work (works for me at least):
> 
> qemu -hda debian.img -m 1024 \
> 	-chardev socket,id=tty0,host=127.0.0.1,port=5555,server,telnet \
> 	-serial chardev:tty0 -nographic \
> 	-kernel vmlinux -append 'console=ttyS0,115200n8' \
> 	-initrd initrd.gz
> 
> If you're seeing something like:
> 
> QEMU waiting for connection on: disconnected:telnet:127.0.0.1:5555,server
> 
> that means it works, connect with telnet, or netcat, or whatever.
> 
> 

It is indeed, in Cygwin and in cmd.exe but not in powershell.

>> Qemu supports using COM port and I have install com0com (1) but when
>> using '-serial COM25' I get the following error:
>>
>> $ qemu-system-x86_64.exe -drive file=debian.img,format=raw -boot c -m
>> 8192 -nographic -accel hax -machine q35 -serial COM25
>> HAX is working and emulator runs in fast virt mode.
>> QEMU 3.0.0 monitor - type 'help' for more information
>> (qemu) C:\Program Files\qemu\qemu-system-x86_64.exe: -serial COM25:
>> Failed CreateFile (2)
>> C:\Program Files\qemu\qemu-system-x86_64.exe: -serial COM25: could not
>> connect serial device to character backend 'COM25'
>>
>> I guess I'm missing something in the above command?
> 
> -serial [dev] means:
> 
> Redirect the virtual serial port to host character device dev.
> 
> As I wrote earlier, we don't do Windows here, so I cannot produce a
> Windows equivalent of /dev/com25.
> 

Nevermind, I can install/run the guest using telnet if using 'cmd.exe'.

I'm a happy camper!

Thanks for your help.

-- 
John Doe


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