RE: Expect for d-I tests
>> Is not very clear to me how to interact with d-I via qemu.
>
>I suspect it will be easier with bochs, as qemu is missing a
>feature.
Do you know if is in the whishlist of future qemu releases?
>bochs can use the 'term' console driver, and then use
>normal stdin and stdout as the console. This console would be
>easy to control using expect. You would have to tell d-i to
>not enable framebuffer to get this to work, as bochs stops all
>output to the tty terminal when framebuffer is enabled.
>
I see; I did install d-I using bochs a while back and get stuck when
framebuffer was initialized: thanx for the tip.
As for qemu: I tried it last night and I got the installation done quite
easily.
>qemu seem to lack such tty console, so I don't know how to do
>it with qemu. :(
I'll ask the #qemu people this evening...
In the meanwhile thanx a lot
Ciao
D.
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