Re: Newbie, struggling with graphics and qemu monitor

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/30/2009 06:35 PM, Michael Jinks wrote:
>> Hi List.
>>
>> I'm taking my first look at KVM, using version 85, on a Gentoo system
>> with kernel release 2.6.29.
>>
>> The gist of my problem right now is that I can't figure out how to
>> access the monitor, and I've tried various things with no luck so far.
>>
>> My first hitch was that apparently SDL isn't working properly on my
>> system, because running a console with SDL enabled just prints garbage
>> characters to my xterm.  It seems that the mistranslation works both
>> ways, because in cases where I happen to know what the guest system is
>> displaying and can type blindly on its console, it doesn't behave the
>> way I expect given the input I (think I) gave it.
>>    
>
> I'd start fixing this first.  Do other SDL applications work?  Is SDL 
> fully installed?

Sounds like you have SDL configured to use libaa and are running qemu 
without DISPLAY set.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori