The purpose of this project is to illustrate how to build and run a minimal Debian 9 (stretch) qemu virtual machine that is capable of using qemu's curses display.

Execute make build to build the virtual machine image.

Execute start-vm-curses to run the virtual machine in the foreground with a curses display. Log in at the console or via ssh.

Execute start-vm-daemon to run the virtual machine in the background with no display. Log in via ssh.

Log in with username of sysadmin and password of sysadmin either at the console (curses display) or via ssh:

ssh -p 10022 sysadmin@localhost

qemu-system-x86_64 uses the Bochs VGA interface (aka qemu stdvga). To disable the framebuffer for this emulated video card, bochs_drm.fbdev=off is passed to the Linux kernel per this advice.

This project is copyright (C) 2017 Luca Filipozzi [email protected] and is released subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License v2. Please see the included LICENSE.txt for the full text of Mozilla Public License v2.