On Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 3:08:13 PM UTC-4, awokd wrote:
> On Tue, March 20, 2018 7:01 pm, Bill Wether wrote:
> > Hi, all,
> >
> >
> > In 3.2's dom0, typing
> >
> >
> > qvm-run -a work konsole
> >
> > returns as soon as the VM has started up and the command has been issued.
> >
> >
> > In R4, though, the Dom0 terminal just gets stuck--I can get it back with
> > ctl-C, but that's pretty inelegant.  I can use setsid, but that just
> > disguises the problem since all those bash sessions are still there.
> >
> > Was this a design choice, is it a bug, or (as so often) pilot error?
> 
> Design choice. Try appending a " &" after the command string.


Could you give me a few more words about that?  Running it in the background is 
like setsid, except that the cruft stays in the same process. 

ISTM that 'qvm-run' should just run the program in the VM, if necessary 
starting the VM first.  What's it doing, waiting for a return code?

Cheers

BillW

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