Character interface Install QEMU/KVM guest Client

I think, first try installing VNC Server on the host, then VNC will have to install the client (so there is VNC's virtual desktop), or try-curses; Of course, if you really need nographic to install this, then this is your preparation. The QEMU 1.7 version used here by

(similar to other versions of QEMU/KVM) is installed with the CentOS 6.4 minimum version.

1. First get the start kernel and initrd files in ISO: (this is to mount them, because only need to read, and do not need to write)

[Root@my-host ~]# mount/data/nfs/ images/centos-6.4-x86_64-minimal.iso/mnt/-O loop

2. The command to start the guest for installation is as follows: (assuming you have installed the QEMU/KVM, my book has been introduced in detail, hehe)

Note that you need to specify the kernel, INITRD, append parameters (as explained in the No. 258 page of my book, ^_^) because it is started in a non graphical interface using –nographic, you need to redirect the guest console, so you need The "-append console=ttys0" parameter, which is required to use the-kernel parameter, because the kernel command-line arguments in append cannot be passed directly to the CDROM inside the hard drive, kernel, and so on. Sometimes, you need parameters such as "-append ' Console=tty0 console=ttys0,115200n8′".

In addition, the BIOS is specified here, otherwise I see the latest qemu (incredibly) wrong "qemu:could not load PC BIOS ' Bios-256k.bin '", if you do not encounter this error, there is no need to display the specified BIOS.

If everything goes well, you can install the guest here. One of the screenshots I was installing with –nographic was:

3. After starting the installed guest, start the guest command using the Nographic method as follows:

[root@my-host ~]# qemu-system-x86_64-enable-kvm-m 1024 -SMP 2 vm2.img--nographic

Of course, you can also use –curses (4.6.5 of the book has already been said)

[Root@my-host ~]# qemu-system-x86_64-enable -kvm-m 1024-SMP 2 vm2.img-curses
 
# Curses may need to rely on some of the packages as follows
[root@my-host ~]# rpm-qa | grep curses
N curses-5.7-3.20090208.el6.x86_64
Ncurses-base-5.7-3.20090208.el6.x86_64
ncurses-libs-5.7-3.20090208.el6.x86_64
ncurses-devel-5.7-3.20090208.el6.x86_64