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I launch Qemu in test console:

% qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu host -boot c -hda fedora.qcow2 -snapshot -m 1024 --enable-kvm -name vm0 -curses -pidfile /var/run/vm0.pid -net none -netdev type=tap,id=net0,script=no,downscript=no,ifname=vhost0,vhost=on -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0

And it starts booting the kernel, I see messages, however it hangs shortly and all I see on the screen is "1280x1024 Graphic mode" in the center. I don't want any graphics, so I even updated grub.cfg on the guest and replaced 'rhgb' with 'text'.

Also in the guest:

% ls -la /etc/systemd/system/default.target lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 37 Sep 22 17:17 /etc/systemd/system/default.target -> /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target %

What else should I do to run it in purely text mode?

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You want to configure your guest to send the console to the serial port.

With grub: $EDITOR /etc/default/grub

GRUB_TERMINAL="serial console" GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=ttyS0 ..."

The regenerate grub's config with grub-mkconfig 

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Once the guest is configured properly. you change your qemu command to:

qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu host -boot c -hda fedora.qcow2 \ -snapshot -m 1024 --enable-kvm -name vm0 \ -pidfile /var/run/vm0.pid -net none \ -netdev type=tap,id=net0,script=no,downscript=no,ifname=vhost0,vhost=on \ -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 -nographic

Which will use the current terminal for the serial console and qemu monitor console.

If don't want the qemu's monitor console, you can replace -nographic with -serial stdio

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