After I started using Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox, I needed my ubuntu VM's console output to be redirected to another guest VM (in context of kgdb debugging). The way to achieve such redirection is
- In VM being redirected from (say VMObserved): Create a serial port in the VM & then enable redirection to serial port in boot options of the VM.
- In VM being redirected to (say VMObserver): Attach to the serial port of the above VM using putty.
Following are the steps I used in Virtualbox host, VMObserved & VMObserver:
Steps I used in VMObserved
- I opened VirtualBox, selected my VM - MyUbuntu1, clicked "Settings".
- Next, selected my VM & clicked on "Settings" in VirtualBox top menu.
- Next, clicked on "Ports" tab:
- Next, checked "Enable Serial Port", selected "Host Pipe" option & provided the file to which redirection should happen:
Steps I used in VMObserver
- I opened VirtualBox, selected my VM - Ubuntu_Test_VM, clicked "Settings".
- Next, selected my VM & clicked on "Settings" in VirtualBox top menu.
- Next, clicked on "Ports" tab:
- Next, checked "Enable Serial Port", selected "Host Pipe" option, checked "Create Pipe" optio & provided the file (the same filename specified in configuring VMObserved) to which redirection should happen:
- Start the VMObserver. VM Observer should be started before VMObserved so that pipe is created by VMObserver & its attached to by VMObserved.
- Install Putty: sudo apt-get install
- Start Putty to attach to serial console
Steps I used in VMObserved
- Start the VMObserved (VMObserved should be started only after starting VMObserver)
- Next, start the VM & edit boot options during linux booting to add "console=ttyS0 console=tty0 ignore_loglevel"
And here is finally the console output (kernel boot log messages) appearing in VMObserver:
Hope this helps.
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