[Qemu-devel] Re: OT: Running qemu without host os?

[Ben Pfaff]

"Jim C. Brown" <address@hidden> writes:

> (Actually, a linux host CAN give that access, as long as it is
> a PCI card you are giving the guest access to - but then only
> the guest can use it exclusively. Of course Qemu needs to run
> in X so this isn't yet possible .. unless you have 2 graphics
> cards, one of them is PCI, and the linux host is using the
> other graphic card.)

qemu does not need to run in X.  Use the -nographic option.
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