Hi Bruce, On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Bruce Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: Mike > > 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. > > ie: > sudo -i > export DISPLAY=:0.0 > export XAUTHORITY=<whatever it was set to before sudo> > qemu-kvm ...
No success... mike@himon:~> echo $DISPLAY :0 mike@himon:~> echo $XAUTHORITY /var/run/gdm/auth-for-mike-NDRdlY/database mike@himon:~> sudo -i root's password: himon:~ # export DISPLAY=:0 himon:~ # export XAUTHORITY=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-mike-NDRdlY/database himon:~ # cd /ostree himon:/ostree # qemu-kvm -vga vmware -cpu core2duo -M pc-0.15 -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r) -initrd /boot/initramfs-ostree-$(uname -r).img -hda ostree-qemu.img -m 1024M -vga vmware -append 'rd.plymouth=0 root=/dev/sda ostree=current ' -monitor stdio Warning: default mac address being used, creating potential for address conflict QEMU 1.2.0 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) No protocol specified Could not initialize SDL(No available video device) - exiting Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
