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What I want to use is the "-parallel" tcp or udp option from KVM / QEMU, but I don't seem to find any server for this client. I don't serve a printer but a hardware dongle.
I checked ser2net, which does provide "/dev/lp0" sharing, but it doesn't seem to work for KVM / QEMU. I suspect KVM / QEMU requires "/dev/parport0". I did rmmod lp, modprobe ppdev, linked ser2net to parport0, but it didn't work out. Perhaps ser2net is not suited for this.
I tried socat as well, and I tried netcat. No success.
Does anyone know any KVM / QEMU compatible parallel port server? Or did any of netcat, socat or ser2net work for you?
korkman
Posted 2011-01-13T23:07:02.283
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If that "hardware dongle" is used in a licensing check, the software might include a latency check in order to defeat remote port sharing. – Ben Voigt – 2011-01-13T23:10:15.583
Yes it is being used for copy-protection. Quite possible it contains a latency check. Still I'm wondering if KVM / QEMU parallel via network is supposed to work with ser2net. manpages are a bit short on examples. One annoying thing I noticed was that KVM doesn't reconnect TCP. So any change on the server side = reboot KVM :-( – korkman – 2011-01-14T13:17:55.233