Re: [Qemu-devel] Are FreeBSD guest images working?

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 09:47:48AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 16 November 2018 at 05:01, Peter Xu <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I would guess there aren't many people like me to prefer booting a VM
> > using console, though I agree that it'll be nice if we put something
> > into the prebuilt images like what's suggested by Ilya (and so far I
> > don't see anything bad with that):
> 
> As it happens I would have preferred the instructions on
> the QEMU wiki to work with a pure serial console but was unable
> to get that working so defaulted to graphics. (I didn't try very
> hard: x86 in general is much worse for getting serial boot
> working than other architectures, partly because of the BIOS.)

qemu-system-x86_64 -machine graphics=off should work reasonable well
these days.

cheers,
  Gerd