On Tue, 2 Jan 2018 15:31:49 +0100 Catonano wrote: > You said that I could have logged in from the host terminal, right ? > > How do I do that ? > > The host terminal is running qemu, there are the messages that I'm pasting > here, no prompt Then no getty is running. Please add (mingetty-service-type config => (mingetty-configuration (inherit config) (tty "/dev/ttyS0"))))) to (services ...) in vm-config-desktop.scm . Maybe agetty instead of mingetty, I forgot... That should start a login thingie on the serial.