Hi Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Maydell [mailto:peter.mayd...@linaro.org] > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 12:52 > To: Yehuda Yitschak > Cc: qemu-discuss@nongnu.org > Subject: Re: [Qemu-discuss] Booting GUI ubuntu VM on Aarch64 > > On 15 February 2016 at 10:04, Yehuda Yitschak <yehu...@marvell.com> > wrote: > > From what I can gather it looks like QEMU is not generating a screen > > for the guest to work with. I understood that QEMU uses SDL to start a > > screen for the guest but I suspect that doesn’t happen for some > > reason. Also the fact that the Qemu window start in the console instead of > SDL view looks strange. > > An AArch64 VM will have no graphical display device, only a serial console. > The QEMU window shows graphics/monitor/serial in that order, so if there's > no graphics then the next up is monitor. > > The expectation is that these are for server work so no graphics device is > expected or required typically.
That makes sense however I need graphics for demo purposes. How can I overcome this limitation ? should I re-build QEMU with a different configuration, or is this limitation built-in in the QEMU code ? Thanks Yehuda > > thanks > -- PMM