Can qemu work in a console only

neilms

neilms

I installed qemu on my FreeBSD laptop. I only use programs in console mode, no X-Windows at all. My question is whether it is possible to run a guest operating system with my setup. I have used the display option -curses when starting the emulation but the text becomes garbled as if nothing gets scrolled away. Can anyone help.
 
If the virtualized operating system uses only character output, it will work. Or rather, I've done that with FreeBSD: % qemu -m 16 -cpu pentium -hda fbsd1.img -enable-kqemu
 
This does not work: qemu -curses -net user -net nic -m 256 -hda minix.img. It starts the emulation but the screen becomes unreadable as if old characters are not scrolling away. The last command you noted is not even recognized. (-enable-Kqemu)

I wonder if I might get better results with bochs?
 
The following invocation should force any text-mode bootloader to use serial console redirected to standard output.
$ qemu-system-i386 -nographic -option-rom sgabios.bin ...
After that you instruct the Linux/[size=-1][Free? -- mod.][/size]BSD/etc. kernel (and getty(8) for multiuser) to configure the com1 port for the serial console and enjoy.
 
oops said:
The following invocation should force any text-mode bootloader to use serial console redirected to standard output.
$ qemu-system-i386 -nographic -option-rom sgabios.bin ...
After that you instruct the Linux/[size=-1][Free? -- mod.][/size]BSD/etc. kernel (and getty(8) for multiuser) to configure the com1 port for the serial console and enjoy.
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I don't understand your post. Are you able to explain this more fully?
 
wblock@ said:
Try it without -curses. -enable-kqemu probably requires QEMU be rebuilt with that option.
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This requires a Windows environment. I get a message cannot open SDL display and the system hangs. I then have to reboot by removal of the power.
 
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