[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installation in KVM for OSS porting

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Am 19.10.20 um 14:56 schrieb 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.

Oops this was my fault, I still had an old DVD image from 2016 and
accidently connected this instead of the new one.

> 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.

Interesting tip, I will check out Vagrant, thanks

> 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.

I have already found this by looking around, cool.

> 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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