Creates a new Simics command-line accessible using telnet on TCP port port or on UNIX socket unix_socket. If neither port nor unix_socket is specified, a currently free port will be selected. If a busy port is specified the command will fail. The port or UNIX socket actually used is returned by the command.
The command will fail if a privileged TCP socket is specified or if unix_socket specifies a file that already exists. UNIX sockets are not supported on Windows.
The -non-interactive flag can be used to prepare for scripted, non-interactive sessions. This prevents Simics from using fancy formatting and coloring of the output and disables the asynchronous prompt for commands running the simulation. The -plain-text flag can be used to only disable output formatting. These two flags affect all future connections made to the telnet frontend. The corresponding interactive and plain_text attributes can be used to change the settings of an already created telnet-frontend object, although existing connections will not be affected.
It is possible to limit the number of allowed connections to the frontend with the max-connections argument. Once this number of connections has been reached, no new connections are allowed even if previous ones disconnect. It is possible to reset the count of connections by writing directly to the num_connections attribute in the telnet-frontend class.