From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJgLq-0001K0-Dd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:09:46 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJgLp-0001IL-Bt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:09:45 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37193 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJgLp-0001Hw-0a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:09:45 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.237]:24735) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJgLo-0004ze-Ji for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:09:44 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c46so143611wra.18 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:09:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:09:43 +0200 From: "andrzej zaborowski" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to get target system display with qemu -nographic option? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 2008/7/18 Atoosah : > >> >> When -nographic is specified, no graphical window is created. The only >> way to see the graphics window is using the VNC option. > > If I run the program with graphics enabled (i.e. no -nographic option) I get > the login prompt and then the password. From then on, the display is in > shell prompt mode. So, does -nographic mean that I won't be able to access > this display? If so, it seems very limiting without being able to run > experiments on our guest machine. > >> >> Furthermore, when -nographic is specified, I think "-monitor" defaults >> to "serial", meaning the actual serial output is overridden by the qemu >> monitor. To change this, look at "-monitor" and direct it somewhere >> else (such as to a TCP stream). > > I'd appreciate if you'd explain a bit more what you mean by "serial output > is overridden by the qemu > monitor".. > >> >> Does this help? > > Thank you. I'm still looking at the vnc option. Just to make sure the > /etc/inittab that is modified (with 7:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS0 9600 > vt100-nav) should be the guests or the hosts? I'm a newbie in this area, so > any help would be appreciated. On the guest. When you use -nographic, you get a (vritual) pc without a monitor, but with a serial port. If your Fedora is not set up to have a login on the serial port, you will see nothing when you connect a serial cable to the port. You can have login prompts both on serial and on screen. You could also ssh into the guest instead.