Re: KVM configuration for headless speachless guest VMs?

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Dimitry Golubovsky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am going to use KVM on a headless machine with sound never on (even
> not compiled in the kernel).
>
> I'm just curious if there is a possibility to build the kvm-qemu
> without all this sound/video stuff (or with minimum of it). In
> particular, without alsa at all.
>
> Has anybody tried to pass --disable-alsa, --disable-gfx-check to
> qemu's configure: would it still work with KVM? Emulation of a graphic
> adapter is not necessary either because I am going to communicate with
> VMs mostly via ssh, or running x11vnc inside if graphics is needed.
>
> Any suggestions? I understand that this is a wholly experimental
> thing, and I am ready to experiment. Hopefully I am not the first one
> - can anybody share their experience with such kind of KVM
> configuration?
>
>   

I see no reason why it shouldn't work.  The out-of-the-box ./configure 
is oriented at fully featured hosts, but feel free to modify it to your 
needs.

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