Hi all,
new qemu user here.
I can't seem to find the options that do what I want, only options that
*almost* do it.
I want to
- start a qemu VM from a shell script
- redirect just the physical console
(not a pty or anything inside the VM)
- output should go to some file descriptor
(stdout is fine, I know how to redirect descriptors)
- I would like to also have a window that shows the guest console
so I can debug the script
- send keystrokes to the VM
The emulated machine is a standard 64-bit PC, with a monitor and
keyboard (i.e. the console).
I already know that transforming the console to a character stream is
somewhat icky, because the screen is just a two-dimensional character
array, so qemu would have to observe the changes and reconstruct a
series of control sequences that reproduce these changes.
Is that what -curses does? The description wasn't too clear for me.
I only need text mode, so graphics modes are a non-issue.
I tried reading the docs, but that didn't help for various reasons (lack
of knowledge about which TLA is intended for what purpose - I can
quickly rule out block device options, but is SPICE even a sensible
thing to consider? ... no idea, the docs don't tell me.)
I also tried stack overflow, but all the approaches that I found were
talking about adding a kernel parameter, which I would like to avoid (I
need to deal with FreeBSD, which I'm pretty unfamiliar with and I would
be unable to deal with any variations of the device name, plus it's just
another moving part that can fail, plus is't a difference between VM
test runs and real hardware and I don't want to have to worry about that).
Any help appreciated!
Regards,
Jo
