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Once at the kbd> prompt, I cannot send my keystroke to the VM while using socat to show the log.
Even if I boot ReactOS (RosDbg)... ReactOS (Debug) should have this problem I think.

I use:
paul@chibouli:~$ socat unix-client:/tmp/ReactOS-Debug.pipe stdin

[Tab K to force the debugger]
fixmeOnNotify LVN_KEYDOWN key=0x00000009
fixmeOnNotify LVN_KEYDOWN key=0x00000009
fixmeOnNotify LVN_KEYDOWN key=0x0000004b

Entered debugger on embedded INT3 at 0x0008:0x80957462.
kdb:> bt
bt

Do you have a magic socat line that would work?
Or maybe just an other application.

The best option is already documented in https://www.reactos.org/wiki/VirtualBox
minicom with serial port set to unix#/tmp/ReactOS-Debug.pipe
Then you can use Ctrl-A Z to get list of commands.
Most usefull Ctrl-A L to log to a file.
When finished, redo Ctrl-A L to close the file.

Ok I found something that works at: http://automatthias.wordpress.com/2008/ ... irtualbox/

First I now use /tmp/allo for the pipe created in Virtuabox.

Next in one terminal I do:
$ socat UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/allo PTY,link=/tmp/alloah

In an other terminal I do:
$ screen /tmp/alloah

To exit screen:
Ctrl-A Ctrl-D

The second post means you succeeded eventually or that more attempts failed? To me it seems optimisic, but I'm not sure.

Everything in second post was tested and worked for me.