Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/23/2011 03:34 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I have a friend who is running his business on an old OpenServer machine, and >> would love to be able to just run a copy in a VM. The issue is that it talks to >> the old serial terminals through a multiport card. Any hope that I could get KVM >> to provide usable serial ports to the VM using a modern card? Or even not so >> new, I have a case of unused "HUB6" cards and would be glad to find a home for >> one, since modem pools are not a big thing anymore. >> >> I last did SCO admin for a living in 1993, and have done little but Linux since, >> so I'm not right on top of this OS any more :-( >> > I have not tried it, so this is just an idea. If Linux supports the > multi-port card, and it does support some, then map that many serial > ports from the VM to the actual ports. You will have to check if > your VM has enough virtual ports to make it work. > Progress - I have the physical disk image in a file, and I start it with qemu-kvm and it comes up to the "boot:" prompt. At that point things I type are echoed to the console. If I hit ENTER the next part of the boot continues, and it gets to the prompt "Enter control-d for normal boot or root password for maintenance" At that point it ignores the keyboard, and if I go into QEMU and try to send the character with that, "sendkey cntl-d" it ignores that as well. This was in a *very* old system and I bet it's looking for an AT keyboard rather than PS/2. Any thoughts? I can take it to the KVM list, but there is a tendency to suggest going to the latest version of KVM before really looking at the problem. I can't do that, this is a production KVM host, and I can't really risk an upgrade. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
