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

[Alex Bennée]

Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> writes:

>> > 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 ...

Thanks.

If you do a re-spin then could you consider including:

  Subject: [PATCH] tests/vm: favour the locally built QEMU for bootstrapping
  Date: Fri,  7 Jun 2019 19:53:37 +0100
  Message-Id: <address@hidden>

Also your scripts and python3 fixes are already merged.

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Alex Bennée