> >If there's netcat/socat on the host you could tunnel it via ssh. > > > >Maybe something like this (untested) > > > > ssh esxi "netcat -U /path/to/virtual_serial.sock" | \ > > socat STDIO TCP-LISTEN:5500 > > telnet localhost 5500 > > Thanks Jirib. I will give this a try later.
just for the record, this works for me on Ubuntu though I don't know how to escape `cu' :/ (Tested with VMWare Player where flashboot VM's serial is defined as unix socket.) $ socat PTY,link=/tmp/pty,raw,waitslave EXEC:'ssh localhost "nc -U /tmp/flash50.sock"' $ cu -l /tmp/pty Connected. OpenBSD/i386 (localhost) (tty00) login: I'm not really socat specialist, so maybe there are some secret options :) Does anybody know them? $ socat - EXEC:'ssh localhost "nc -U /tmp/flash50.sock"' Same as above but without need of `cu', but every ^C kicks you out. jirib
