On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has anyone tried to connect from a host to a guest via the guests
> virtual serial console with Virtualbox?

Got this to work with Ubuntu 10.04.  There are roughly five steps:

1) enable a virtual serial device in VBox
  
http://www.opensourcery.co.za/2009/09/30/virtualbox-gentoo-and-serial-consoles/
2) enable serial grub
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SerialConsoleHowto
3) enable serial bootup
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SerialConsoleHowto
4) enable serial login
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SerialConsoleHowto
5) use minicom to connect to pipe created in step 1
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SerialConsoleHowto

Regards,
- Robert

-- 
Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups)
Main page: http://www.cwelug.org
To post: [email protected]
To subscribe: [email protected]
To unsubscribe: [email protected]
More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug

Reply via email to