[Qemu-devel] qemu -nographic broken on OS X 10.4 Tiger?

[Qemu-devel] qemu -nographic broken on OS X 10.4 Tiger?

[Nick]

Hey, everyone.  I'm quite new to the list, so please tell me to shove  
off if this is the wrong area, but it seems to be the way to go.

It appears that the -nographic option is broken in OS X 10.4.  I've  
attempted the binary version as well as compiling from 0.6.1 and from  
the CVS tree.  It doesn't appear to be the image libraries screwing  
it up, since compiling using the Cocoa driver and the SDL driver  
makes no different.  Starting up with the graphics on works as expected.

When running:

/usr/local/bin/qemu -hda (imagename) -m 256 -nographic

I get the (qemu) prompt in the terminal, and the qemu term icon shows  
up in the Dock and immediately beachballs.  Nothing is displayed in  
the terminal.  qemu takes 60-80% of my CPU, but doesn't appear to  
actually load the image.  When supplying log options, nothing is  
written to /tmp.  Starting up with the CPU off will start it without  
a hang, but nothing can happen from there - no input is accepted.

I'd be more than happy to try things, or at least get some guidance  
as to where to look for traces, but I have zero experience with this  
codebase and have no idea where to start. :(

Any help is appreciated. Thank you. :)

-- 
  - Nick
    outzider at fsckedhost.com

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu -nographic broken on OS X 10.4 Tiger?

[Paul Brook]

On Monday 25 April 2005 19:44, Nick wrote:
> Hey, everyone.  I'm quite new to the list, so please tell me to shove
> off if this is the wrong area, but it seems to be the way to go.
>
> It appears that the -nographic option is broken in OS X 10.4.  I've
> attempted the binary version as well as compiling from 0.6.1 and from
> the CVS tree.  It doesn't appear to be the image libraries screwing
> it up, since compiling using the Cocoa driver and the SDL driver
> makes no different.  Starting up with the graphics on works as expected.

Is your guest OS configured to communicate over the serial port?

It sounds like qemu is doing exactly what it's supposed to: Disabling 
graphical output, and redirecting the guest serial console to host terminal. 

Paul