Re: [Qemu-devel] How to get target system display with qemu -nographic option?

[andrzej zaborowski]

2008/7/18 Atoosah <address@hidden>:
>
>>
>> When -nographic is specified, no graphical window is created.  The only
>> way to see the graphics window is using the VNC option.
>
> If I run the program with graphics enabled (i.e. no -nographic option) I get
> the login prompt and then the password. From then on, the display is in
> shell prompt mode. So, does -nographic mean that I won't be able to access
> this display? If so, it seems very limiting without being able to run
> experiments on our guest machine.
>
>>
>> Furthermore, when -nographic is specified, I think "-monitor" defaults
>> to "serial", meaning the actual serial output is overridden by the qemu
>> monitor.  To change this, look at "-monitor" and direct it somewhere
>> else (such as to a TCP stream).
>
> I'd appreciate if you'd explain a bit more what you mean by "serial output
> is overridden by the qemu
> monitor"..
>
>>
>> Does this help?
>
> Thank you. I'm still looking at the vnc option. Just to make sure the
> /etc/inittab that is modified (with 7:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS0 9600
> vt100-nav) should be the guests or the hosts? I'm a newbie in this area, so
> any help would be appreciated.

On the guest. When you use -nographic, you get a (vritual) pc without
a monitor, but with a serial port. If your Fedora is not set up to
have a login on the serial port, you will see nothing when you connect
a serial cable to the port. You can have login prompts both on serial
and on screen.

You could also ssh into the guest instead.