Hostinfo day 6: RPM packaging, initscripts, hostinfo-status, hostinfo-test.

[virt-hostinfo.git] / hostinfod / hostinfo-protocol.pod

diff --git a/hostinfod/hostinfo-protocol.pod b/hostinfod/hostinfo-protocol.pod
index 036a856..f5b901c 100644 (file)
--- a/hostinfod/hostinfo-protocol.pod
+++ b/hostinfod/hostinfo-protocol.pod
@@ -53,6 +53,15 @@ to use any serial port, I<or> it can try to determine the serial port
 dynamically (although this may be risky/undesirable depending on what
 the other serial ports are used for).
 
+On Linux/Unix guests, you will need to disable echo and set the serial
+port to raw mode.  The easiest way to do this is to execute the
+following command:
+
+ stty raw -echo < /dev/ttyS1
+
+although it can also be done using terminal ioctls (see L<ioctl(2)>
+and L<ioctl_list(2)>).
+
 =head2 REQUESTS AND REPLIES
 
 The basic protocol consists of sending a text-based command (the