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From: Filip Navara <navaraf@reactos.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU display problem w/ in terminal server client
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Filip Navara wrote:

> Francois Rioux wrote:
>
>> I'm exploring QEMU Windows guests under Windows (XP Pro) host.  I've 
>> successfully installed W2000 Adv Server, BartPE as guests.
>>  
>> At some point, I've tried to launch and work with QEMU in a Remote 
>> Desktop  (terminal server, RDP) session. The result is the following:
>>  - No crash.  Both host and guest keep running.
>>  
>> But for the rest, it is not really usable because of the following 
>> problems.
>>  - Text mode display in the guest is displayed in the upper corner of 
>> the host in the terminal client window.  This regardless of where the 
>> QEMU window is positionned on the screen.  The same sometimes happens 
>> with the graphical mode, but not always.
>>  - The mouse does not behave properly in the QEMU window when QEMU 
>> has grabbed the mouse.
>>  
>> The text mode display (while booting) problem could not be an issue.  
>> The mouse problem renders the Window based unusable.  The problem 
>> goes beyond just positionning in the window: when I move the mouse, 
>> the arrow inside the guest sometimes moves but not in a coordinated 
>> way.  It might cross the screen faster than the external mouse arrow 
>> but it does not always move up when the mouse moves up.  It would 
>> normally stick in the upper left corner of the QEMU window.
>>  
>> I know QEMU for Windows is in alpha but does anyone have a clue on 
>> why this happens and if it it can be fixed.
>
>
> Try entering this on command line before running QEMU:
> set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=*windib*

Gotta love Thunderbird ...
set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib (without the asterisks)

- Filip