[SerialICE] Experiencing a qemu segfault and serialice accessibility problems

[Myles Watson]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Idwer Vollering <vidwer at gmail.com> wrote:
> My problem is two-fold:
>
> 1) Running the patched qemu segfaults.
>
> $ sudo ./i386-softmmu/qemu -serialice /dev/ttyUSB0 -hda /dev/zero -L bios/
> [sudo] password for idwer:
> SerialICE: Open connection to target hardware...
> SerialICE: Waiting for handshake with target... target alife!
try the latest qemu in the SerialICE tree

svn://serialice.com/serialice/trunk/qemu-0.11.0

It's already patched, and it has been updated more recently than the patch.

> 2) Right now, the serialice shell appears only once: after flashing
> serialice.rom and performing a soft reset from vendor bios to serialice.
>
> SerialICE v1.5 (Aug  3 2010)
>

Sounds like SerialICE is depending on some initialization from the
vendor BIOS.  I guess an ugly way to test it would be to copy the
working configuration bits from lspci and hard code them into
SerialICE until you find what's wrong.

Thanks,
Myles