I don't think this is right. You might want to use -nographic, but still
keep an emulated graphical device inside the guest for testing the
userspace applications without seeing their output. It's better to set -vga
none via a dedicated runqemu option.

Alex

On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 at 20:09, Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote:

> When using nographic, explicitly disable vga since some qemu firmware (
> OpenFirmware ) defaults to std vga, and when vga is enabled then it
> disables output to serial and redirects that to vga which is by design,
> hwoever we expect the console output to go to serial when using
> nographic, therefore its important to disable vga with nographic
> especially on qemu based ppc platforms
>
> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <[email protected]>
> ---
>  scripts/runqemu | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/runqemu b/scripts/runqemu
> index dd92a64553..2e31338d8e 100755
> --- a/scripts/runqemu
> +++ b/scripts/runqemu
> @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ class BaseConfig(object):
>                      raise RunQemuError('Option nographic makes no sense
> alongside the sdl option.' % (arg))
>                  if ('gtk' in sys.argv):
>                      raise RunQemuError('Option nographic makes no sense
> alongside the gtk option.' % (arg))
> -                self.qemu_opt_script += ' -nographic'
> +                self.qemu_opt_script += ' -nographic -vga none'
>                  self.kernel_cmdline_script += ' console=ttyS0'
>              elif arg == 'sdl':
>                  if 'gl' in sys.argv[1:]:
> --
> 2.30.1
>
>
> 
>
>
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