From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Newbie, struggling with graphics and qemu monitor Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:43:09 +0300 Message-ID: <4A4B219D.1040708@redhat.com> References: <4A4A3AD5.5010302@redhat.com> <4A4A40D4.6060506@codemonkey.ws> 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]:52160 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752462AbZGAIlX (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 04:41:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/30/2009 09:33 PM, Michael Jinks wrote: > In an attempt to get past unrelated interference I just set up an X > session with only an xterm, used that to launch VNC connecting to my > KVM test host, and tried to launch my test guest again. Same > behavior: Ctl-Alt patterns are ignored, as are any other keystrokes I > try to send to the qemu console window, which won't release my mouse. > > I've looked but haven't found any way to attach a monitor process to > an already-running guest. Is this possible? Or do we only get a > monitor as a child process of the initial kvm invocation? > Look up the -monitor option. > Given the way qemu and screen interact, using the same keystrokes to > initiate commands, it would be really useful to have some other way to > detach and re-attach to a kvm guest on the fly. > > If you run qemu in screen, use -vnc. X and screen don't mix. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function