On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 22:51 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 10/23/2011 03:34 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> I have a friend who is running his business on an old OpenServer machine, > >> and > >> would love to be able to just run a copy in a VM. The issue is that it > >> talks to > >> the old serial terminals through a multiport card. Any hope that I could > >> get KVM > >> to provide usable serial ports to the VM using a modern card? Or even not > >> so > >> new, I have a case of unused "HUB6" cards and would be glad to find a home > >> for > >> one, since modem pools are not a big thing anymore. > >> > >> I last did SCO admin for a living in 1993, and have done little but Linux > >> since, > >> so I'm not right on top of this OS any more :-( > >> > > I have not tried it, so this is just an idea. If Linux supports the > > multi-port card, and it does support some, then map that many serial > > ports from the VM to the actual ports. You will have to check if > > your VM has enough virtual ports to make it work. > > > > Progress - I have the physical disk image in a file, and I start it with > qemu-kvm and it comes up to the "boot:" prompt. At that point things I type > are > echoed to the console. If I hit ENTER the next part of the boot continues, > and > it gets to the prompt > "Enter control-d for normal boot or root password for maintenance" > At that point it ignores the keyboard, and if I go into QEMU and try to send > the > character with that, "sendkey cntl-d" it ignores that as well. This was in a > *very* old system and I bet it's looking for an AT keyboard rather than PS/2. > Any thoughts?
Well... (1) SCO Open Server was first released in 1989, and the PS/2 was released two years earlier. More importantly... (2) An AT and a PS/2 keyboard are the same, with different physical connectors. (XT keyboards used different codes). Is your VM emulating a USB or PS/2 keyboard? -Chris -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
