Re: [Qemu-devel] how to run qemu independent of X?

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Magnus Damm wrote:

> Just to clarify, I meant a guest Linux kernel above. And you are trying
> to run solaris as a guest?

Yes. But I havnt serial console to work with Solaris - qemu seems to 
spin on startup if i try use serial console.

> Hm. It takes some time before the Linux kernel starts outputting things
> on the serial port. It has to decompress the kernel etc.

What is "some time", 5 minutes? More?

> I have created a little Linux distribution designed to run within QEMU,
> it is using the -nographic mode successfully. If it would be helpful to
> you I would be happy to send a binary tarball via email (~3 MiB large
> binary tarball, ~95 MiB tarball with sources).

That would be useful, I could figure out if i had a solaris 
bootloader problem or a qemu one. Please do! :)

> > > You will not get any output from the BIOS or from the
> > > bzImage-bootloader though, they seem to write directly to the VGA
> > > hardware. And I am not sure if Ctrl-Alt-1/2/3 works correctly - I
> > > do however get a monitor prompt displayed the first thing... wierd.
> >
> > Monitor as in a stdio '(qemu) ' monitor prompt, or ....?
>
> (qemu)

Right, but you should eventually get serial output on that same 
terminal no? I dont seem to (unless I need to wait even longer 
perhaps).

> Good Luck!
>
> / magnus

Thanks Magnus

regards,
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