Hi. On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 22:30:55 +0100 Andrew Wood <andrewjamesw...@ymail.com> wrote:
> One other question. Is it possible to run it on a non GUI host ie a > Debian system without X installed but run guest operating systems which > do require a GUI such as MS Windows or Haiku? Sure, that's exactly what big kids are doing :) Currently you have three ways of doing it (all do not require X): 1) Universal one, but slow. Adding something like "-vnc 0.0.0.0:0" to qemu commandline will force qemu to provide a VNC server on customary tcp:5900, and guest OS will draw to VNC server only. You can also try altering "-vga cirrus"/"-vga std"/"-vga vmware" to switch the video card you provide to the guest OS (not everyone can be happy with 16-bit color 1024x768 cirrus provides, and it's used by default). 2) Hardcore one. Adding my favorite "-nographic" to qemu commandline will force qemu not to provide VGA adapter to the quest system and to force a serial console to stdin/stdout. It's a required parameter more-or-less once you start using *other*, non-x86, qemu-system binaries. 3) RedHat one. Adding "-vga qxl -spice port=5900,disable-ticketing" to qemu commandline will force qemu to use built-in SPICE server (akin to VNC, but requires own client) on tcp:5900. As a bonus, you should get the sound transferred from the quest to you. As a malus - unless you're planning to use Linux - you'll need QXL drivers. Reco
