On 3/25/06, Mikado <mikado4vn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My purpose is to provide serial interfaces for debugging. My real box > acts as remote host connecting to VMWare box by a *virtual* serial cable > so that I can set up a debugging environment. Have you tried using software-based serial snoopers? See e.g. http://freshmeat.net/snooper and http://packages.debian.org/unstable/comm/snooper. Haven't tried any of these but they seem to do what you describe. Regards, -- Anderson Lizardo Embedded Linux Lab - 10LE Nokia Institute of Technology - INdT Manaus - Brazil - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html