Samuel Thibault wrote: > Robert Edmonds, le Wed 03 Oct 2012 18:33:13 -0400, a écrit : > > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Robert Edmonds, le Wed 03 Oct 2012 18:04:50 -0400, a écrit : > > > > virt-install \ > > > > > > Do you know what kind of terminal virt-install emulates? (if it emulates > > > anything, instead of just passing chars by). > > > > virt-install actually just invokes "virsh console". looking at virsh's > > tools/console.c i think it is very close to just passing chars through. > > So we can't really expect it to work in all kinds of terms. > > Fixing it would mean to either > > - add more terminfo files into d-i, and you'll have to pass e.g > TERM=xterm along console=ttyS0 > - hack the vt102 terminfo into also recognizing xterm arrow sequences > as such. I'm afraid it's not even possible without breaking the vt102 > support. > > Samuel
ok, i tried "virsh console" from a real linux virtual console and it worked just fine with d-i. is there a better X terminal emulator in debian for accessing a serial console d-i? i tried plain 'xterm' but got the same result as with xfce4-terminal. -- Robert Edmonds edmo...@debian.org
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