From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HWM5T-0001Kz-4W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:32:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HWM5R-0001HA-Mo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:32:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HWM5R-0001GZ-39 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:32:25 -0500 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HWM30-0002Al-Sm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:29:55 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtual machine halting and loosing connections Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:29:46 +0100 References: <9a158e2e0703271634x3b806b7ahe070aae2ea8a9631@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703280129.46703.paul@codesourcery.com> 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, balrogg@gmail.com On Wednesday 28 March 2007 01:22, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > On 28/03/07, Kyle Hubert wrote: > > I've been looking online, but I can't say that I have found the answer > > to this yet. > > > > When using QEMU, I've noticed that if I switch away to a different > > virtual desktop on the host OS's WM, then QEMU stops what it is doing. > > It's really clear when it's in the middle of a boot, but it always > > occurs. This causes havoc since I'm using qemu as an ssh client and > > the server I'm connecting to drops me for inactivity. This doesn't > > matter if I use keepalive or not. > > Just confirming that I'm seeing the same thing, and it's not a recent > problem because I remember it happening in 0.7.2 and earlier. My guess is it's a bug in your X server, window manager or SDL. If the X server stops responding then qemu will stall. Paul