Re: [Qemu-discuss] How to show the system login prompt? (via ssh)

[Narcis Garcia]

I see now a Debian 8 guest where I have:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset text"
GRUB_TERMINAL=console

* Don't forget to update-grub after.


El 02/12/16 a les 12:31, Shiyao Ma ha escrit:
> Yes, it's now the business of the guest OS.
> 
> What guest distro are you using?
> 
> I'd like to give it a try.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> On Dec 2, 2016, 18:40 +0800, Narcis Garcia <address@hidden>, wrote:
>> It seems to be the guest OS that is jumping to GUI. As far as I know,
>> Qemu has nothing to do at this point but the guest OS.
>>
>> I use these parameters for GRUB when I want CLI only:
>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nomodeset"
>> GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="text"
>> GRUB_TERMINAL=console
>>
>>
>> El 02/12/16 a les 11:21, Shiyao Ma ha escrit:
>>> I now start the VM with the following command,
>>> sudo kvm -m 256 eva.qcow -net nic,model=virtio -net
>>> user,net=192.168.101.0/24,hostfwd=tcp::8022-:22 -curses
>>>
>>> turns out I can SSH into it on port 8022.
>>>
>>> I then modified the grub of VM to be:
>>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="text"
>>> GRUB_TERMINAL="console"
>>>
>>> I also did a :
>>> sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target
>>>
>>>
>>> Shutdown the VM and then run the command:
>>> sudo kvm -m 256 eva.qcow -net nic,model=virtio -net
>>> user,net=192.168.101.0/24,hostfwd=tcp::8022-:22 -curses
>>> again,
>>>
>>> Now I can see the grub menu showing up.
>>> And then, some text showing up, looks like the kernel is doing the
>>> booting.
>>>
>>> And then, suddenly, at the time the normal "login: password" prompt
>>> should show up, the terminal shows:
>>> "1024 x 768 Graphic mode"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I thought doing a "sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target" should
>>> be enough. Dunno what I am missing.
>>>
>>> I am running a fresh installation of debian8.6.
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 2, 2016, 17:24 +0800, Narcis Garcia <address@hidden>,
>>> wrote:
>>>> May be the guest OS that is going to graphic mode, and because of this
>>>> you aren't seeing the GUI in CLI? If so, you can use that VM connecting
>>>> to guest's GUI and not host's CLI.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> El 02/12/16 a les 10:04, Shiyao Ma ha escrit:
>>>>> Hi.
>>>>>
>>>>> I SSH to a server, which has no X environment installed.
>>>>> On the server, there is qemu/kvm running VMs.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can launch the VM with the following command:
>>>>> sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -hda eva.qcow -enable-kvm -curses
>>>>>
>>>>> but the terminal screen sticks at showing:
>>>>> "1024 x 768 Graphic mode".
>>>>>
>>>>> Picture here:
>>>>> http://imgur.com/a/jhMe5
>>>>>
>>>>> My question is, how can I see the normal login prompt, e.g.,
>>>>> login:
>>>>> password:
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards.
>>>>
>>