On Friday 09 February 2007 22:19, Rob Landley wrote: > 1) When you accidentally run qemu as root, could it NOT try to go into a > full-screen display by default resulting in a corrupted display you can't > break out of and have to power cycle the machine?
This is a feature of your SDL libraries. They're probably trying to use console framebuffer output. Complain to whoever supplied your SDL libraries. > 2) After said reboot, when you're sanely running qemu as a normal user but > using the hda image file you made as root, if a hard drive image isn't > writeable, could it warn or something, rather than having the ubuntu > install mysteriously fail halfway through when it finds itself unable to > mount /dev/hda1 after it thinks it just partitioned the drive? I think this is also a feature. Previous versions would refuse to use readonly images at all. Paul _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel