Hi, Thanks for reply. -monitor option gives me acces to qemu console. I need access to guest shell. It occours I didn't have serial port enabled in grub, now it's works with -nographic option. If someone is interested this tutorial make the deal: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-serial-console-howto/ Michal 2010/4/4 Gerhard Wiesinger > On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, Micha? Król wrote: > > Hi, >> >> I'm using qemu on linux and with the linux guest. It works fine, but I'd >> like to be able to enter commands and see the output >> on host console and not in the SDL or VNC window(guest has now gdm - only >> non graphical mode). >> >> Refering to the qemu manual option -nographic should make it, but when I >> add it, I see no output and I can't type anything. >> There's just process in the background. >> >> I also tried to make it with -chardev socket, but without -nographic >> option after connecting to socket normall SDL window >> appear and with -nographic option I also can't type anything or see any >> output. >> >> Hello, > > You can use: > -monitor stdio > > You can also use the screen command to close the terminal (see a screen > tutorial). > > Works for me at least with VNC. > > BTW: Is the console also available through Ctrl-Alt-F2 with VNC? > > Thanx. > > Ciao, > Gerhard > > -- > http://www.wiesinger.com/