Running qemu remotely (via ssh)

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Ramzi Khahil picture Ramzi Khahil · Apr 9, 2014 · Viewed 44.2k times · Source

I have a server that I am experimenting with, and sometimes I want to work from home so I installed the 'ssh daemon' (namely, 'sshd') and I can ssh to the server. This works fine. But when I try to run a virtual machine on the server with 'qemu', I get the following error Could not initialize SDL(No available video device) - exiting.

Is it possible to run qemu via ssh connection?

Note, I do not want to see the visual interface to the VM that I'm launching. I just want to to run.

Answer

user3662901 picture user3662901 · Aug 22, 2014

Try qemu -curses or qemu -nographic to bypass the SDL

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