I have been playing with the serial console capabilities that are part of qemu, and noticed the following error when I ran qemu-kvm with the “-curses” option on a Fedora 10 host:
$ qemu-kvm -curses
qemu-kvm: invalid option – ‘-curses’
The manual page indicates this should be a valid option:
-curses Normally, QEMU uses SDL to display the VGA output. With this option, QEMU can display the VGA output when in text mode using a curses/ncurses interface. Nothing is displayed in graphical mode.
But closer inspection of the qemu-kvm binary proves otherwise:
$ qemu-kvm -help | grep curses
$ ldd /usr/bin/qemu-kvm | grep curses
I filed Fedora bug 504226 to get this option added.