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On Tuesday 27 March 2007 06:34:04 pm Kyle Hubert wrote:
> I've been looking online, but I can't say that I have found the answer
> to this yet.
>
> When using QEMU, I've noticed that if I switch away to a different
> virtual desktop on the host OS's WM, then QEMU stops what it is doing.
> It's really clear when it's in the middle of a boot, but it always
> occurs. This causes havoc since I'm using qemu as an ssh client and
> the server I'm connecting to drops me for inactivity. This doesn't
> matter if I use keepalive or not.

I can say that I do not get this behavior.
Host OS is linux, no-frills Xorg, KDE.
I start up one of my VMs and switch to different desktop...a minute or so 
later I'm able to ssh to that VM - after starting it, I never even visited 
the desktop it's on.