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Date:      Fri, 04 Oct 2013 12:00:09 -0700
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Problems with missing ttyv devices in BHyve?
Message-ID:  <524F1039.2020605@freebsd.org>
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Hi Craig,

> However, what I am trying to test is the early stage bootup of our
> installation CD,
> before FreeNAS is installed on the disk.  When our CD boots up, it presents
> a text-based dialog menu where the user can select certain items and
> choose which
> disk to install on.  If I could access the console in BHyve at this
> point via expect
> to drive the install menu, that would be very useful.

  The only way to do that at the moment is to exec bhyve under 
expect/empty/etc. davide@ had a pyexpect script that did this to 
sanity-test the bsdinstall dialogs for a release.

later,

Peter.




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