Re: [Qemu-devel] Are FreeBSD guest images working?

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 5:30 AM Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 09:47:48AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On 16 November 2018 at 05:01, Peter Xu <address@hidden> 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.)
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 -machine graphics=off should work reasonable well
> these days.
>

That's what I use to test the boot blocks / boot loader :)

Warner

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