Hi Michael, About your VNC problems : I have had problems w/ vnc too (see http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?p=10468) but had no answer as well...
Anyway, it's better to do like you're doing : installing a VNC server inside the vm is much better because you can have authentication and such things... and no mouse / keyboard issues. I'm using Qemu VNC server for the Qemu supervisor I'm developing (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/casimir-web/ ) and it works very well this way : ask qemu vnc to listen in a socket (-vnc unix:/tmp//vmXXX.vnc) and use socat to make it listen on a tcp port when you need it (socat TCP4-LISTEN:<port> UNIX-CONNECT:<socket>), socat will die when the connexion closes, not Qemu :) I don't know if it is because of the socat thing, but I don't have problems anymore... Le mardi 25 septembre 2007 à 11:11 +0100, Michael McConnell a écrit : > Clemens Kolbitsch wrote: > > hi! > > i've been trying around for quite some time now trying to start qemu > > without > > the graphic screen... can someone tell me exactly what I'm supposed to do?? > > > > i want to redirect the output of my i386 debian linux to my host-console > > (also > > a i386 debian) to fully see the output of a kernel panic (see previous > > messages i have posted). > > > > i'm starting qemu: > > > > qemu -hda myimage -boot c -kernel-kqemu -kernel mykernel -initrd > > myinitrd -append "root=/dev/hda1 console=/dev/ttyS0" -nographic > > > > after tons of trial-and-error i finally got my system to boot, however, the > > login-screen is not displayed (i see all output of the starting system up > > until the ">>login:"). how do i connect to the serial line now to get to > > the > > login?? > > Add this to /etc/inittab in the guest system: > co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS0 9600 vt100-nav > > Without that it's only going to put the login prompts on the (now > hidden) virtual consoles. > > The (emulated) hardware display still exists, it's just not shown. I use > just such a setup for a Win2000 virtual-machine that's accessible by > VNC. I've had issues with QEMU's own VNC server (it crashes with a core > dump on disconnection, and no-one on the list was remotely interested) > so instead I run UltraVNC within Win2000 and connect to that instead. >