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kragen ◴[] No.45655604[source]
Ilo/Konilo is pretty cool, but I already knew that. What I didn't know about was qemu-system -nographic.

Any idea why crc is specifying a custom BIOS image? QEMU comes with a default one, right? Questions like these make me wish asciinema supported recording voiceovers.

I'm guessing that the slow text screen updates are some kind of an artifact of unoptimized UEFI implementation, and/or QEMU, because I'm pretty sure Konilo is a lot snappier than this running under Linux, even though the Ilo implementation is not a highly optimized virtual machine.

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coolcoder613 ◴[] No.45662230[source]
There are actually two similar options, one is -nographic, which simply shows the serial terminal, and the other is -display curses, which will show the VGA text mode console on the terminal.
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crc_ ◴[] No.45667900[source]
With this, I wasn't seeing any output with -display curses. It does work with -nographic or using a vnc connection to qemu's display, as well as on the two physical machines I currently have access to.
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1. coolcoder613 ◴[] No.45674972[source]
That would probably be because it is using UEFI text mode rather than VGA text mode.