all, qemu with sdl always end up with "-nographic" since r13745 (Merge VFB support for PV and HVM guests.) attached patch can fix it. Signed-off-by: Zhai Edwin but vnc hvm guest still fail restore with File "/home/gzhai/srcs/hg/tip/dist/install/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 1261, in _createDevices File "/home/gzhai/srcs/hg/tip/dist/install/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 1237, in _createDevice File "/home/gzhai/srcs/hg/tip/dist/install/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/server/vfbif.py", line 48, in createDevice File "/home/gzhai/srcs/hg/tip/dist/install/usr/lib/python/xen/xend/server/DevController.py", line 111, in createDevice VmError: Device 0 (vfb) is already connected. thanks, edwin