On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 00:23, Thomas Pircher <thp+deb...@p5r.uk> wrote:
> 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.
> 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.
On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 01:00, Thomas Pircher <tho...@p5r.uk> wrote:
> Thomas Pircher wrote:
> > 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.
> Sorry, I realised later that you wanted to send <ALT>-<F2>…
> That would be:
> <CTRL-B>:send-keys M-F2<ENTER>
Hi Thomas,
Thank you for your suggestion! I was quite hopeful it might work but
I find it does not.
tmux is new to me but I have just tested following your instructions.
At the relevant point, I do <ctrl-B>:
and tmux responds by presenting a colon prompt.
Then I type literally the following text:
send-keys M-F4
and when I press <enter> key, the debian-installer behaves
exactly the same as if I just pressed the enter key without
any special tmux actions.
Looking for other things to try, I did:
send-keys -X M-F4
tmax response: "not in a mode"
I also tested in xterm with the same result.
I wonder what I'm doing differently to everyone who has
given me suggestions that surely work for them.
Is it perhaps something to do with what I mentioned in
my first message?
On buster, I run 'virt-install' with debian-installer with
preseed arguments including
--graphics none
--extra-args "auto=true priority=critical console=ttyS0 ..."
Note: console=ttyS0
Are the people offering me answers also using that preseed
option?
I know that I can access a shell via the d-i main menu.
I wonder if anyone can suggest how to view the debug messages
from there.
I am aware that d-i allows to save debug logs but the goal I'm hoping
for is to be able to see log messages while I am trying different
commands in a d-i shell.
