Chris Tyler wrote: > On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 22:51 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> 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? > > Well... > > (1) SCO Open Server was first released in 1989, and the PS/2 was > released two years earlier. More importantly... > > (2) An AT and a PS/2 keyboard are the same, with different physical > connectors. (XT keyboards used different codes). > > Is your VM emulating a USB or PS/2 keyboard? > Supposedly a PS/2, I didn't use the "-usbdevice" option, to the keyboard and mouse should be PS/2, only being a server it isn't going to use a mouse, presumably. Man page says it does PS/2 by default, that appears to be the case for Linux in a VM, I don't think I have a bootable machine with AT keyboard left to see if it's different in some way. Odd that the boot manager would see the keystrokes, if I type printing characters they echo, BS deletes them, ENTER starts the boot, and after that kb is ignored. -- 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
