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.
