From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Newbie, struggling with graphics and qemu monitor Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:18:29 +0300 Message-ID: <4A4A3AD5.5010302@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Jinks Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:39950 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751781AbZF3QQq (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:16:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function