On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Bruce Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't claim to be an expert on security, so I won't comment
> on the security implications here, but I was able to get qemu-kvm
> to use SDL by exporting both the DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY that is set
> in your session before doing a sudo -i, within that session.

Yeah, it's recommended not to run the test setup where security is a concern.

> ie:
> sudo -i
> export DISPLAY=:0.0
> export XAUTHORITY=<whatever it was set to before sudo>
> qemu-kvm ...
>
> Hopefully this helps.

Terrific, Bruce, thanks! I'll give it a try.

Mike
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