On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 2:23 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at 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