Re: QEMU

[Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>]

	Hi.

On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 22:30:55 +0100
Andrew Wood <andrewjameswood@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