[PVE-User] Local interface on Promox server

[Ronny Aasen]

On 27.11.2018 03:39, Adnan RIHAN wrote:
> Yannis Milios yannis.milios at gmail.com wrote:
>> Is it really that difficult to get a laptop in the server room to manage
>> the servers?
> 
> Well… You would be surprised ;)
> 
> It’s not « THAT » complicated, except that currently we are in a
> country in crisis and buying a laptop only for that is currently
> overkill. We had a tech machine there, but had to use it for a point
> of sale.
> 
>> Personally I would avoid installing a full Desktop environment on the PVE
>> hosts
> 
> No choice. If it’s discouraged, then I won’t insist.
> 
> Uwe Sauter uwe.sauter.de at gmail.com wrote:
>> You could use
>>
>> qm terminal <ID>
>>
>> to connect to the serial console
> 
> I’m not really looking for connecting a serial console, but would have
> liked an access to the desktop manager of a VM, as if it was possible
> to redirect the keyboard/video/mouse of my KVM console to an actual
> VM.
> 
> As Yannis said, it seems to overcomplicate things. Then we will wait a
> budget to buy a mini-pc and install it with the desktop we want.
> 
> BTW, I take advantage of the discussion about the serial port. In
> Congo it’s hard to find an original serial-to-usb cable to plug our
> PBX to one of our VMs. Prolific made an update and all our cables are
> not working anymore. This was the only way to easily plug our RS232
> PBX to a VM.
> 
> While waiting to find an original converter, is there a way to
> redirect a serial port (/dev/ttyS0) to a Windows VM, creating a COM
> port connected to the linux serial port?
> 

i use one of these.
https://www.moxa.com/product/NPort_5650.htm

The device gets an ip addres in a dedicated lan for serial port servers.
an tcp/ip port is mapped to a serial port.

so you can have many vm's with 1 serial each, or multiple serial ports 
on some vm's

there is downloadable software for linux and windows. or you can use a 
opensource standardized tool on linux called socat.

you can get them in various sizes depending on need.

optinally you can make your own using a software called ser2net if you 
have a raspberrypi or similar micro machine.

kind regards
Ronny Aasen