David wrote: > My goal is to automate in a VM my testing of various aspects of > debian-installer, such as paritioning, and the setup and teardown > is faster if the test VM has no GUI so I am using console VM.
The "packer" tool does a decent job at automating this. It exports the console as a VNC service, but I'm not sure what the support in various VNC clients is to send key combinations. Experimenting with VNC (with or without packer) might be worth trying. > If anyone has alternative method suggestions that will > allow access to all consoles in the debian-installer in the > VM, I'd like to hear about that. If you can start a tmux session inside your LXTerminal, before connecting to the KVM console, then you could use the send-keys function in tmux. The keystrokes are in tmux are "CTRL-B", followed by ":send-keys M-2", followed by the Enter key, for sending the <Alt>-<2> (Meta-2) key combination. This assumes that you are the default binding of CTRL-B for the tmux "prefix" key. This is fiddly but it works for me. I do this sufficiently infrequently so the additional typing is not an issue for me. YMMV. Good luck, Thomas
