Re: [Qemu-devel] re: Nothing happens

[Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>]

> I first just tried without the SDL-devel libs, but that was the same,
> and the above mentioned thread suggested that SDL may be a cause
> (although I suspect we may be talking of different problems).

Did you actually do a clean build after installing sdl-devel? You need to 
either delete your build directory or do "make clean" before rebuilding. 
Otherwise qemu will reuse the old (output disabled) object files.

> The thing 
> is, once the virtual machine achieves a state of "completion" (ie
> windows gets to the login promt, or linux gets to the bash prompt - same
> problem there by the way) the cpu cycles disappear as the virtual
> machine is not doing any work at all.

That's normal. When the guest suspends the CPU (via the HLT instruction) 
there's no need to qemu to do anything, so it doesn't. Real CPUs do the same 
thing.

Paul