From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: KVM configuration for headless speachless guest VMs? Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 10:53:31 +0300 Message-ID: <464FFE7B.1040703@qumranet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: Dimitry Golubovsky Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.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. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/