How to use qemu to run a non-gui OS on the terminal?

Question

I want to run some programs on the High Performance Computer (With 8-core processor) in my department. Now I use that machine with ssh using terminal. The machine has Red Hat li

Answer 1

I've struggled this for a while and finally figured out how to get it to work for me:

You need to have SGABIOS installed. Interestingly this BIOS is not included in the debian qemu package, so you need to install it (as the superuser):

apt install sgabios  

Then when you run qemu use the -device option to tell the virtural machine to use the sga output

qemu-system-i386 -nographic -device sga discimage.bin

Voila! works perfectly over ssh with both the monitor and text output sent through stdio. You can access the qemu monitor with C-a c.

cheers, ben