From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFe5R-0000c6-Ni for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:19:21 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFe5P-0000bZ-Vc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:19:20 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFe5P-0000bT-Sv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:19:19 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=grelber.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HFe5P-0001xF-GS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:19:19 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grelber.thyrsus.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l19MQFLk030968 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:26:15 -0500 From: Rob Landley Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:19:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702091719.16429.rob@landley.net> Subject: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests. Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 1) When you accidentally run qemu as root, could it NOT try to go into a full-screen display by default resulting in a corrupted display you can't break out of and have to power cycle the machine? 2) After said reboot, when you're sanely running qemu as a normal user but using the hda image file you made as root, if a hard drive image isn't writeable, could it warn or something, rather than having the ubuntu install mysteriously fail halfway through when it finds itself unable to mount /dev/hda1 after it thinks it just partitioned the drive? (The error messages are a bit vague here, because it _thinks_ earlier steps succeeded.) Thanks. 0.9.0 looks really nice. Are qops going in next? Rob -- "Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery