Hello again. The misconfiguration on my part was indeed the problem, and things are working now, sort of. The vm boots just fine, and the guest sees a serial port. However, if I bring up hyperterminal on the host, and minicom in the guest, typing in hyperterminal on the host displays the text in minicom on the guest, but the opposite doesn't work, text typed in minicom isn't displayed in hyperterminal.
File transfers between the 2 using z-modem don't work either. When trying to upload/download a file from either side, both programs can see that a transfer is being attempted, but the sending program reports a retry0 connection time out. Running vmwaregateway /T /V shows that both the tcp and pipe connections are established, but only text typed in hyperterminal is displayed in vmwaregateway's window in verbose mode, text typed into minicom isn't displayed in vmwaregateway, or in hyperterminal. The documentation for vmwaregateway, and the manual for virtual box seem to indicate that both pieces of software support bidirectional communication. Any pointers on what I'm missing, or on what else I could check/do would be much appreciated, and thanks in advance. Greg P.S. I've noticed also that when shutting down the vm, either via halt from the shell prompt, or via vboxmanage controlvm debian poweroff, the vm window will sit there, saying "stopping debian", until vmwaregateway is shut down, and the named pipe is closed. I should also mention that looking through vbox.log shows nothing out of the ordinary about the vm session. -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
