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Our software does bare metal recovery of servers, which essentially requires a boot disk to start the process and grab the original image off of the backup server. While we can automate testing of a lot of the backup procedures, I have yet to find a way to test the restore procedures.

Our restore process runs in ncurses. On a physical machine I can't think of any easy way to test this process, but what about in a VM? Is there anything that could run on the host machine and simulate keyboard presses?

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I can think of a few options-

a USB keyboard emulator maybe ?

Use an RS232 output to drive and simulate an RS232 keyboard?

ipmi remote console, if your platform supports it

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For a Mac host, there is Keyboard Maestro. For Windows hosts, there's AutohotKey. For Unix hosts, there are AutoKey, Xnee, or XDotool.

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