[gentoo-user] Re: virtualbox - serial port

[Grant Edwards]

On 2012-09-18, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 09/18/12 07:07, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I'm trying to configure virutalbox serial port, but I'm getting an
>>>error:
>>>
>>>NamedPipe#0 failed to connect to local socket /dev/ttyS0
>>>(VERR_ACCESS_DENIED).
[...]
>>>What am I missing?

>>Do you have permissions set correctly to access the serial port
>>normally (without virtualbox)?

> How do I check if some other application are not using serial port?

To check to see if another app has the port open, use lsof. But,
that's not what's causing your error.  Linux allows serial ports to be
open by multiple processes.

Do you have permissions set correctly to access the serial port
normally (without virtualbox)?

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