by danang.wijanarko@gmail.com
I've been dealing so much on OS testing purpose. And sometimes i need to simulate a "LFS" like OS where all output is configured to go trough serial device all of them. So even we are succeed to boot the OS we will not see any output on the VMWARE/VMPLAYER screen.
Ok when dealing with VMWARE/VMPLAYER so how to make an easy way to route all those serial message to our internal file, so we could just do "tail -f <serial_simulate_file>" to see the output ?. This article will explain briefly how to do this.
Execution
First you need this OS already succeed to boot on your VM* box. Then you should install socat (Multipurpose relay (SOcket CAT)), you can find it here. In case