Building a Headless FreeBSD Virtual System

2012-08-29 Thread Martin McCormick
I am using Oracle's VirtualBox package for the Mac. It is free and I am not sure that Dollars would get past the issue I have, here. VirtualBox uses Microsoft's remote desktop as the one and only output channel to allow remote access to the virtual system one is creating and this

Re: Building a Headless FreeBSD Virtual System

2012-08-29 Thread Ryan Frederick
When you define the virtual serial port in VirtualBox for the guest VM one of the options available for connection of the port to the host system is a named pipe (I believe it's called Host Pipe in the configuration). You can then specify whatever named pipe on the host system you wish to