Passing serial ports to xen guests with kernel-xen

[Steven Haigh]

Hi all,

This may be going slightly out of topic for this list, however I'm  
wondering if anyone is aware of a way to pass a physical serial port  
(/dev/ttyS0) to a Xen guest?

I have thought of other options such as passing a USB controller to  
the Xen guest using pciback, however this will require a custom  
kernel as usbcore etc is built into the FC kernels.

What I want to achieve is to control a PC based RF Radio scanner that  
hooks up to a COM port, have it web tunable and stream the received  
audio out via shoutcast etc. For obvious reasons, I don't want to do  
this on the host machine :)

Anyone have any ideas?

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Steven Haigh

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