Re: Newbie, struggling with graphics and qemu monitor

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

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?

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