From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HWc5A-000748-PP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:37:13 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HWc59-00073i-43 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:37:12 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HWc59-00073f-0r for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:37:11 -0500 Received: from hobi.com ([130.94.185.247]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HWc2d-0006jz-My for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:34:36 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO ricklap) ([68.23.60.237]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.185.247 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 28 Mar 2007 17:34:34 -0000 From: Rick Vernam Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtual machine halting and loosing connections Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:34:34 -0500 References: <9a158e2e0703271634x3b806b7ahe070aae2ea8a9631@mail.gmail.com> <200703272053.42162.rickv@hobi.com> In-Reply-To: <200703272053.42162.rickv@hobi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703281234.34166.rickv@hobi.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 Tuesday 27 March 2007 08:53:42 pm Rick Vernam wrote: > 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. fwiw, I run 64-bit (host) kernel. all guest stuff is 32 bit.