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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:12:13 -0400
From: sl@9front.org
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Subject: Re: [9front] console=0 by default for the iso
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> i'd like to have console=0 on by default in the cdrom plan9.ini.
> 
> my use case right now is in qemu, which can be started with a serial
> line, but no graphic adapter like so:
> 
> qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom 9front.iso -nographic
> 
> this will connect the first serial line to qemu's stdin/stdout, but
> you can't do anything because 9front won't send the kernel console
> output there by default
> 
> any thoughts?

If this does not affect graphics, I see no reason not to do it.

sl