Re: [Qemu-devel] Connecting to serial console via Telnet - possible ?

[John R. Hogerhuis]

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 03:03 -0400, Armistead, Jason wrote:
> Hi
> 
> With SIMH, the VAX / PDP / nostalgic mini/mainframe emulator
> (http://simh.trailing-edge.com/) the console port on the emulated system is
> directed to a TCP/IP port, so that you can simply Telnet into it.  Once the
> connection is established, then the SIMH emulator starts working.  This
> suits SIMH nicely since many of its hosts want a VT100-ish console terminal
> anyhow, which is nicely emulated by many Telnet clients, and it saves SIMH
> having to do any keyboard conversion, host output decoding and screen
> output, etc.

Well QEMU can redirect the serial port to a character device. I guess if
you redirected it to a pty then you just use socat to bridge the pty to
a tcp connection, telnet or whatever.

-- John.