I am trying to get going with CentOS 8.
In the past I would run qemu-system-x86_64 -hda myfile.img get a console and off we go.
I dont with to use virt-manager and the gui and all - I just wish to have a similar command line to boot up and run my img. Is there something like that I'm not finding ?
I have found virsh - but I dont see how to make it run with an image file from the command line. Perhaps I'm missing something.
Thanks,
Jerry
So after much looking I found /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm. I got everything going except - how do I specify on the command line that I want a window console to pop up ? I want to see all the boot messages and then get a login prompt in a window. I'm sure I'm missing something easy. I tried the "-vga std" but that did not give me a console window.
Jerry
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 2:23 PM Jerry Geis jerry.geis@gmail.com wrote:
So after much looking I found /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm. I got everything going except - how do I specify on the command line that I want a window console to pop up ? I want to see all the boot messages and then get a login prompt in a window. I'm sure I'm missing something easy. I tried the "-vga std" but that did not give me a console window.
The best way I think is:
- start guest in paused mode (the qemu-kvm process is instantiated and console accessible) virsh start vm_name --paused
- attach to guest console (eg spice in my example below; if other guests running, the port could be 5901, 5902 or another one) remote-viewer spice://localhost:5900 &
- while keeping an eye to the console window resume the guest virsh resume vm_name
HIH, Gianluca
On Nov 18, 2019, at 17:05, Jerry Geis jerry.geis@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to get going with CentOS 8.
In the past I would run qemu-system-x86_64 -hda myfile.img get a console and off we go.
I dont with to use virt-manager and the gui and all - I just wish to have a similar command line to boot up and run my img. Is there something like that I'm not finding ?
I have found virsh - but I dont see how to make it run with an image file from the command line. Perhaps I'm missing something.
I would suggest virt-install with the —import optionif you want a console to pop up.
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/htm...
-- Jonathan Billings
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