So you are admitting you have not tested this and you are just going by what you read.

When was the last time you used any "smaller Unices"?

Anyway, even if the problems with -nographic on x86 have been fixed on other non-FreeBSD BSD's (and I have my doubts), my comment that compiling qemu has become a substantial undertaking still stands. I suspect you've probably never even tried compiling it yourself but that will not stop you from commenting.

I compile Bochs statically on low powered computers with no problems. Cannot say the same for Qemu. Even you're not using x11 they expect you to have x11 libraries at compile time. As with most programs that grow so large, there are more than a few dependencies one can do without.