From fa0cc05917561bdcf84665760e11e95f9e408ed7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Wimpress <code@flexion.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:41:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update headless operation docs

---
 README.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e492c60..e31c181 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -344,6 +344,23 @@ in Debian/Ubuntu.
 quickemu --vm ubuntu-focal.conf --display spice
 ```
 
+## Headless
+
+To start a VM with SPICE enabled, but no display attached use `--display none`.
+This requires that the `spicy` client is installed, available from the
+`spice-client-gtk` package in Debian/Ubuntu to connect to the running VM
+
+```bash
+quickemu --vm ubuntu-focal.conf --display none
+```
+
+You can also use the `.ports` file in the VM directory to lookup what SSH and
+SPICE ports the VM is connected to.
+
+```bash
+cat ubuntu-focal/ubuntu-focal.ports
+```
+
 # BIOS and EFI
 
 Since Quickemu 2.1.0 `efi` is the default boot option. If you want to override