On Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 5:30 AM Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 09:47:48AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > > On 16 November 2018 at 05:01, Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com> 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 >
