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serial-driver

A simple serial driver developed for the linux kernel 3.11.10 [EOL].

##Install

####Clone sources git clone https://github.com/xsyann/serial-driver.git

####Set udev permissions echo 'KERNEL=="serial_driver*", NAME=="%k", MODE="666"' | sudo tee -a /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

####Make & Load module make make load

##Uninstall make unload

Install Socat on host

http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/

http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-2.0.0-b7.tar.gz

####Mac OS Install tar xzvf socat-2.0.0-b7.tgz cd socat-2.0.0-b7 ./configure echo '#define __APPLE_USE_RFC_2292' > temp_file.c cat xio-ip6.c >> tmp.c mv tmp.c xio-ip6.c make make install

Install Cutecom on guest

sudo apt-get install cutecom

Test

####Configure VM serial port

  • Open Virtual Machines.localized/[vm-name].vmwarevm/[vm-name].vmx

  • Remove all existing serial ports

  • Add 4 serial ports

      serial0.present = "TRUE"
  serial0.fileName = "/tmp/com1"
  serial0.fileType = "pipe"
  serial1.present = "TRUE"
  serial1.fileType = "pipe"
  serial1.fileName = "/tmp/com2"
  serial2.present = "TRUE"
  serial2.fileType = "pipe"
  serial2.fileName = "/private/tmp/com3"
  serial3.present = "TRUE"
  serial3.fileType = "pipe"
  serial3.fileName = "/private/tmp/com4"

####Host user@host$ socat unix-connect:/tmp/com1 stdio

####Guest user@guest$ cutecom &

Device : /dev/serial_driver0

user@guest$ cat /proc/serial_driver
0: port: 000003F8 irq: 4 tx:0 rx:36 RTS|CTS|DTR|DSR|CD
1: port: 000002F8 irq: 3 tx:0 rx:0
2: port: 000003E8 irq: 4 tx:0 rx:0
3: port: 000002E8 irq: 3 tx:0 rx:0