From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HWcDQ-0008Tr-5H for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:45:44 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HWcDO-0008Pa-JL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:45:43 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HWcDO-0008Ov-Di for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:45:42 -0500 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.227]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HWcAt-00085w-Fk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:43:07 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i30so4293254wxd for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:43:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9a158e2e0703281043h174c94edy6c219fcc33070c7a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:43:06 -0700 From: "Kyle Hubert" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtual machine halting and loosing connections In-Reply-To: <200703281234.34166.rickv@hobi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9a158e2e0703271634x3b806b7ahe070aae2ea8a9631@mail.gmail.com> <200703272053.42162.rickv@hobi.com> <200703281234.34166.rickv@hobi.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 On 3/28/07, Rick Vernam wrote: > On Tuesday 27 March 2007 08:53:42 pm Rick Vernam wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 March 2007 06:34:04 pm 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. > > > > I can say that I do not get this behavior. > > Host OS is linux, no-frills Xorg, KDE. > > I start up one of my VMs and switch to different desktop...a minute or so > > later I'm able to ssh to that VM - after starting it, I never even visited > > the desktop it's on. > > fwiw, I run 64-bit (host) kernel. all guest stuff is 32 bit. Thanks, I should specify that I am now running the same configuration, and I no longer have dropouts. Under 64bit(host) and 64bit(guest), I had the hanging. I don't understand why, since it had happened during boot, runtime, or shutdown. -Kyle