Proxmox VE : accessing COM port from the host in a VM
January 5, 2010 - No comment
If you want to access the COM/serial port of your host machine from a KVM virtual machine in Proxmox VE, simply do the following :
vim /etc/qemu-server/104.conf
where 104 is the ID of the VM
add “args: -serial /dev/ttyS0″ to the end of the file
It should look like this :
name: testVM
ide2: debian-500-i386-netinst.iso,media=cdrom
smp: 1
vlan0: rtl8139=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
bootdisk: ide0
ide0: vm-104-disk.qcow2
ostype: other
memory: 256
args: -serial /dev/ttyS0
If the VM is already running, you may have to stop the VM completely and start it again for it to see the COM port.
If you simply reboot the machine, it may not see it.
Proxmox VE : http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page
