[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installation in KVM for OSS porting

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi

This escape sequence is the "Print Screen" Button. Spice clients use
that keypress as keep-alive signal. The "Print screen" Button is unknown
to illumos, solaris as Sun keyboards did not use to have that key. We
noticed some months ago and added support for that key so this should
not happen anymore. I though this was already in 2020.04 but maybe not.

If you have vagrant installed you can use the Official Vagrant box as an
installation. It has a libvirt image available. [0]
These are updated monthly. I heartly recommend vagrant for managing VM's
for OS porting.

As for your installation. If the escape sequence has made it into the
language selection you can try to edit it in /etc/default/init

Also we have a feature called boot_environments which allow you to
always go back to a state before the update in the boot loader. Try to
boot the old environment after installation if the new one does not work.

Hope this helps
Till

[0] https://app.vagrantup.com/openindiana/boxes/hipster
On 19.10.20 13:53, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> 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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