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Subject: Re: running freebsd in qemu using the "-nographic" option ?
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Aziz KEZZOU wrote:

>Hi all,
>I am running freebsd 5.3 under qemu (a fast IA32 emulator). My host
>system is linux. Everything works fine, but I want to get rid of this
>small non-scrollable window, not practical when gcc says I made many
>many errors :-)...
>  
>


you can scroll it after hittong tthe "scroll lock" key

>Instead I want to get a console. In qemu's  documentation it says :
>======================================================================
>`-nographic'
>    Normally, QEMU uses SDL to display the VGA output. With this
>option, you can totally disable graphical output so that QEMU is a
>simple command line application. The emulated serial port is
>redirected on the console. Therefore, you can still use QEMU to debug
>a Linux kernel with a serial console.
>======================================================================
>
>So basically what I need is, some how, to tell the freebsd kernel to
>forward its output/input to a serial port. In linux this is done by
>supplying the parameter "console=ttyS0". Is there something equivalent
>in FreeBSD ?
>
>  
>

in /boot/loader.conf add:

console="comconsole"

that should do it..



>Thanks for your help,
>Aziz
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