Re: GuixSD in a VM is so nice - once you actually have control over your mouse, that is.

On Thu, 18 May 2017 00:42:18 +0200 Fox wrote: > so I run GuixSD (on bare metal nicely and) on qemu > > but mouse capture is an issue in that gpm or whatever runs the mouse. > > I "can't come back from the Immelmann loop" , so-to-speak. The only > "ESCAPE" is CTRL-ALT-F3

Re: GuixSD in a VM is so nice

The documentation section (the reference I gave earliear), not the wiki page (the reference you just gave), tells the solution for the problem described in the wiki page. The wiki page also mentions the solution but it's implicit. That wiki page tells you that you have to provide options that

Re: GuixSD in a VM is so nice

http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking So helpful that the "notes" tell you a problem but hardly the solution. Seems I ran into a common problem.

Re: GuixSD in a VM is so nice

[[https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Network-options]], I see no way to tell `-net default` to QEMU. yeah but the GuixSD install manual uses it, https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Installing-GuixSD-in-a-VM.html#Installing-GuixSD-in-a-VM so somebody must have gotten it

Re: GuixSD in a VM is so nice

I don't know if this is right, but at least according to [[https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Network-options]], I see no way to tell `-net default` to QEMU.

GuixSD in a VM is so nice

indeed: just press CTRL-ALT(Strg-Alt in places) too bad, notification about this does not show up in time in the QEMU window titlebar seemingly. well well, we saw harder challenges.

Re: GuixSD in a VM is so nice - once you actually have control over your mouse, that is.

I don't know what is the issue exactly, but from the QEMU documentation I can see that, in order for it to grab or release mouse and keyboard, one has to press Ctrl + Alt. Lastly, strangely enough, I as a non-tech user understand QEMU as a VM. But of course, no non-tech user's opinion replaces

Re: GuixSD in a VM is so nice - once you actually have control over your mouse, that is.

On 18.05.2017 00:42, Fox wrote: so I run GuixSD (on bare metal nicely and) on qemu but mouse capture is an issue in that gpm or whatever runs the mouse. I "can't come back from the Immelmann loop" , so-to-speak. The only "ESCAPE" is CTRL-ALT-F3 with root login and "reboot". I mean ...

GuixSD in a VM is so nice - once you actually have control over your mouse, that is.

so I run GuixSD (on bare metal nicely and) on qemu but mouse capture is an issue in that gpm or whatever runs the mouse. I "can't come back from the Immelmann loop" , so-to-speak. The only "ESCAPE" is CTRL-ALT-F3 with root login and "reboot". I mean ... these days a VM should maybe be fine