I wish adding com ports would be an
option, unfortunately some of the equipment I need to interface to is in
a remote location... I could run a vm there too, but I run into licensing
issues on the legacy app. costs a fortune for each machine....
likewise, locally, the vmware server
is a 1u job with all of its slots occupied with nics and raid controller...
I do have the one com port on the machine, but that is not enough....
Elmars Ositis
Head of IT
HVB Bank Latvia AS
Elizabetes iela 63
Riga, LV-1050
Latvia
tel:+371 708 5531
fax: +371 708 5507
Christopher Fowler <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com>
04/28/2006 03:59 PM
To
elmars.ositis@hvb.lv
cc
users@conserver.com
Subject
Re: using conserver to link
vmware virtual machines to Raritan console
servers
I've been trying this for Vmware linux and have ran
into a similar
issue. I can't figure out if Vmware supports R/W named pipes. One
option is to install a multi-port card on the server and each port goes
to a virtual machine. That is what I'm planning to do.
I tried to create a program that ran on the Linux server that would
interface me using minicom to a pseudo tty. I told Vmware to use
the
slave like normal as its serial port. Vmware screams that /dev/ttyp0
is
not a serial port. It is a tty character device so what is
the problem? If I could get vmware to use /dev/ttyp* as its serial
ports then I would be in good shape. I know I can use them normally
because when I run my ttyp server for this purpose I can open and read
and write to /dev/ttyp0.
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 08:50, elmars.ositis@hvb.lv wrote:
> Hello-
>
> I have beent rying to get conserver to work as a go-between for a
> vmware serial port (named pipe) link and a Raritan console server.
> Unlike other console servers raritan only supports ssh connections
and
> which are difficult to remotely attach. I have managed to get
> conserver to connect to a port on the Raritan and now am trying to
get
> the vmware named pipe to connect to the conserver named pipes.
>
> The vmware serial port (linux GSX) creates a single named pipe, but
> the conserver creates two named pipes, I presume one for input the
> other for output. Here is my conserver.cf file:
>
> lvsrv05:/vmware/images/other # more /etc/conserver.cf
> default full {
> rw *;
> }
> default * {
> logfile /var/log/conserver/&;
> timestamp "";
> include full;
> }
> console node1 {
> master localhost;
> type exec;
> exec /usr/bin/ssh -l dominion -t 129.190.9.1
"sconsole -u
> admin -a xxxxxxx -p 1";
> }
> access * {
> allowed 127.0.0.1;
> }
>
> When using 'console node1' the console properly connects to the
> Raritan and gives me direct access to the port. Rather than using
the
> console, I would like to link the vmware serial port to the conserver
> named pipes. Within the virtual machine I will be running a legacy
app
> on windows NT which will connect to some equipment linked to the
> Raritan. The legacy app will then monitor the remote hardware.
>
> Alternatively, if anyone has heard of a way to redirect an NT com
port
> to ssh, I would be glad to hear from you.
>
> Thanks
>
> Elmars
>
> Elmars Ositis
> Head of IT
> HVB Bank Latvia AS
> Elizabetes iela 63
> Riga, LV-1050
> Latvia
> tel:+371 708 5531
> fax: +371 708 5507
>
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