On Thursday, 10 January 2019 2:57:02 AM AEDT Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 11:51:33PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > Currently I run my kvm VMs under screen > > sounds like a PITA doing everything manually...but whatever works for you.
Well it's a small ongoing PITA vs a major PITA to change to something else... > > and just use screen -r to get the console. > > I strongly recommend switching to tmux. I stuck with screen for many years, > been using it since the early 90s, but finally made the switch about a year > ago...finally got sick of screen's bugs, quirks, piss-poor unicode support, > and effective abandonment as an actively-developed project. it took me > about half an hour to configure it so that the transition was > non-traumatic. after a few days, i wouldn't even consider switching back, > any more than i'd switch back from mutt to elm. People have been saying that for years. But what I do with screen is fairly basic so it's been working well enough that I haven't had a great incentive to change. > As I did with screen, I've mapped tmux's escape key to ^K. I rarely use > that for anything else but I use ^A all the time -- ^A is move to start of > line in bash/readline, an extremely stupid key for screen to hijack as its > default control prefix. tmux's default of ^B is better, but I've got used > to ^K over the years. Unlearning that would be too painful. Yes, ^A is really annoying. But I don't use screen enough to make it worth changing. > > Virsh has some benefits, but so far it hasn't seemed worth the pain. > > for just "virsh console", no not worth it. for everything else - virsh and > libvirt are definitely worth it. I probably will do it eventually. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
