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"Jim C. Brown" <jbrown106@phreaker.net> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 01:30:44PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> qemu does not need to run in X.  Use the -nographic option.
>
> This only works if the guest OS is a linux kernel, and it requires the
> -kernel option, if iirc.

It works with any kernel that supports a serial (or network)
console.  It does not require -kernel.  I have used it with Linux
and with my own instructional OS, Pintos, to useful effect.
-- 
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