From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D9o5C-00056J-MR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:37:54 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D9o5B-00055x-FW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:37:54 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9o5B-00055Z-5m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:37:53 -0500 Received: from [128.8.10.162] (helo=po0.wam.umd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D9noY-0000vI-IA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:20:42 -0500 Received: from jbrown.mylinuxbox.org (jma-box.student.umd.edu [129.2.237.180]) by po0.wam.umd.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2BHKfKb005735 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:20:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:20:40 -0500 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu problem (you might be my last resort) Message-ID: <20050311172040.GA13920@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <422F573E.9010107@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <422F573E.9010107@web.de> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:06:22PM +0100, Robin Pfeifer wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm writing to this list because I haven't been able to locate help with > my qemu problem anywhere else (forums, google). > > When I start qemu with the following command: > > qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d -snapshot -m 256 > > with any bootable CD in the drive, I only get a qemu window with the > tile 'qemu stopped'. I cannot get into the monitor by pressing ctrl + > alt + 2 or do anything else except ctrl + c in the terminal where I > started qemu to cancel it. "-monitor stdio" will make the monitor show up in the terminal. If the monitor loads from there, try using 'info' command to see what qemu is doing. > > The command used to work perfectly with various versions of qemu, but > now doesn't anymore. I've tried CVS versions after 0.6.1 stopped > working, but to no avail. > You did build from source yourself, correct? > > At first only my user ID had the problem, and root worked - but then I > tried the -m 350 parameter with root, too, (not thinking, at the time, > that it could be the cause of the problem) and since then, root hasn't > been able to use qemu anymore either. if u add a new user, can that user use qemu (provided you don't try "-m 350") ? > > If I start qemu with the additional parameter -S I can still get into > the monitor, but nothing I do there has any effect - the program still > crashes as soon as I press c or enter cont. > > Does anyone on this list have any suggestion what I can do? > > Robin > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel > -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.