From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Newbie, struggling with graphics and qemu monitor Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:44:04 -0500 Message-ID: <4A4A40D4.6060506@codemonkey.ws> References: <4A4A3AD5.5010302@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael Jinks , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.78.146]:36747 "EHLO ey-out-1920.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750731AbZF3QoH (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:44:07 -0400 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 3so69093eyh.36 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:44:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A4A3AD5.5010302@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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