Interesting, I wonder why it chose that? 

        Given my actual hardware does not support video anyways (it only
        has a serial port) I suppose it is irrelevant. However a useful
        tidbit in case I switch platforms to one that has video.

        Thanks for the help Alex! I'm off to start writing a little app
        to try some things out now.

73's,
Adam Wiethuechter, Jr Software Engineer
Critical Technologies Inc. (CTI)
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As said, if Qemu manages to switch on the graphic mode you are fine.
According to your output it is running in text console mode 80x25, so no
graphics for you.