From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39839) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNajS-0002hj-Gd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 04:48:11 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNajR-0007gi-TA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 04:48:10 -0500 Received: from mail-oi1-x22a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::22a]:35301) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNajR-0007gS-OS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 04:48:09 -0500 Received: by mail-oi1-x22a.google.com with SMTP id v6so6870404oif.2 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 01:48:09 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181116050134.GA16550@xz-x1> References: <20181115085808.GH27915@xz-x1> <162b1a37-79d7-8133-22ee-688748fe62b1@redhat.com> <20181116025304.GC11565@xz-x1> <20181116050134.GA16550@xz-x1> From: Peter Maydell Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 09:47:48 +0000 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Are FreeBSD guest images working? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Xu Cc: Warner Losh , =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu=2DDaud=C3=A9?= , QEMU Developers , Markus Armbruster , Ilya Maximets On 16 November 2018 at 05:01, Peter Xu wrote: > I would guess there aren't many people like me to prefer booting a VM > using console, though I agree that it'll be nice if we put something > into the prebuilt images like what's suggested by Ilya (and so far I > don't see anything bad with that): As it happens I would have preferred the instructions on the QEMU wiki to work with a pure serial console but was unable to get that working so defaulted to graphics. (I didn't try very hard: x86 in general is much worse for getting serial boot working than other architectures, partly because of the BIOS.) thanks -- PMM