Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/14] tests/vm: serial console autoinstall, misc fixes.

[Gerd Hoffmann]

> > What version of NetBSD did you test? There was recently a short lived
> > regression in curses(3) that affected sysinst(8) (installer) in HEAD,
> > but it was fixed.
> 
> The error for NetBSD was navigating the installer which was dumping a
> lot of q's in the stream (unicode bar characters?).

Not unicode, but yes these are bars for boxes.

The console trace you get printed to stdout with V=1 or DEBUG=1 has
terminal sequences and non-printable characters stripped off, so the
switch to the box drawing charset doesn't happen and you get those
q's instead.

cheers,
  Gerd

PS: /me is busy installing ubuntu 18.04 guest to have a look ...