From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: Start KVM guest headless Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:31:40 +0100 Message-ID: <20081010153140.GJ12910@redhat.com> References: <48EF73C6.2060303@schrodinger.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Simon Gao Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:53244 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758361AbYJJPbu (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:31:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48EF73C6.2060303@schrodinger.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:24:54AM -0700, Simon Gao wrote: > I am wondering to how to start a KVM guest OS headless, ie, no > monitoring window? And I can attach to the guest's console if I want to. http://bellard.org/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC10 Read about the '-vnc' option to start it headless, and connect with a VNC client to see graphical console. Or use -serial and configure the guest OS to have a serial console login. Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|