[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installation in KVM for OSS porting

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Gerhard reports on Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:39:35 +0200:

>> I installed OI-Hipster 2020.04 from DVD image in a KVM on Ubuntu-18.04.
>> this was tricky because something poisoned the text fields with escape
>> sequence ^[[210z every two seconds or so - challenging in the password
>> fields...

I too have seen that on several Solaris-family systems installed on
VMs, and I later found a workaround that I recorded about four years
ago in my system notes:

>> ...
>> One thing that plagued me during the initial console installation was
>> the bogus, and rapid, generation of unwanted ESC-[210z input
>> characters interspersed with normal keyboard input.  That made it
>> EXTREMELY difficult to type commands in the console window, or even to
>> login.  
>> 
>> We later found identical problems with other OpenSolaris-based systems
>> (Dyson, Illumian, Tribblix, and XStreamOS), and we found a workaround
>> that changes the virtual display device: select the QEMU virt-manager
>> Display Spice button in the white left panel, and change the Type
>> field from "Spice server" to "VNC server".  Then reboot: the unwanted
>> input no longer appears.
>> ...

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