From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFeDJ-0005o6-7X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:27:29 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFeDG-0005nu-NS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:27:27 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFeDG-0005nr-Id for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:27:26 -0500 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HFeDG-0002ub-3B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:27:26 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests. Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 22:27:08 +0000 References: <200702091719.16429.rob@landley.net> In-Reply-To: <200702091719.16429.rob@landley.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702092227.09299.paul@codesourcery.com> 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 On Friday 09 February 2007 22:19, Rob Landley wrote: > 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? This is a feature of your SDL libraries. They're probably trying to use console framebuffer output. Complain to whoever supplied your SDL libraries. > 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? I think this is also a feature. Previous versions would refuse to use readonly images at all. Paul