Background
I’m running FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE as a host for bhyve virtual machines.
I have a FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE guest running inside a VM. I would like to have two TTY-class devices configured for it.
According to the manual page, in order to start the VM with two TTY-class devices I have to start bhyve with command-line options similar to those: -l com1,/dev/nmdm0B -l com2,/dev/nmdm1B
. Then I should be able to connect to the guest via those two nullmodem terminals with cu -l /dev/nmdm0A
and cu -l /dev/nmdm1A
.
Problem
The first command works as expected: cu -l /dev/nmdm0A
shows me the main console of the guest.
The second command, however, attaches to the guest, but shows nothing. I would expect to show me a login prompt as if switched to another TTY.
What am I missing?
Additional details
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The guest is a fresh installation of FreeBSD.
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The output of
dmesg | grep uart
on the guest is as follows:uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 uart0: console (115200,n,8,1) uart1: <16550 or compatible> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
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I’ve tried setting
hint.uart.1.flags
first to0x10
and then to0x80
(although this one is for kernel debuggers from what I understand from uart(4)) and rebooted after each change. It didn’t work.
References
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Author: Mateusz Piotrowski