Re: Newbie, struggling with graphics and qemu monitor

2009-07-01 Thread Avi Kivity
On 06/30/2009 09:33 PM, Michael Jinks wrote: In an attempt to get past unrelated interference I just set up an X session with only an xterm, used that to launch VNC connecting to my KVM test host, and tried to launch my test guest again. Same behavior: Ctl-Alt patterns are ignored, as are any

Re: Newbie, struggling with graphics and qemu monitor

2009-07-01 Thread Michael Jinks
(Thanks Avi, and all. Sorry if my questions are basic. More of them below.) On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Avi Kivitya...@redhat.com wrote: On 06/30/2009 09:33 PM, Michael Jinks wrote: I've looked but haven't found any way to attach a monitor process to an already-running guest.  Is this

Re: Newbie, struggling with graphics and qemu monitor

2009-07-01 Thread Avi Kivity
On 07/01/2009 04:56 PM, Michael Jinks wrote: (Thanks Avi, and all. Sorry if my questions are basic. More of them below.) On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Avi Kivitya...@redhat.com wrote: On 06/30/2009 09:33 PM, Michael Jinks wrote: I've looked but haven't found any way to attach a

Re: Newbie, struggling with graphics and qemu monitor

2009-06-30 Thread Avi Kivity
On 06/30/2009 06:35 PM, Michael Jinks wrote: Hi List. I'm taking my first look at KVM, using version 85, on a Gentoo system with kernel release 2.6.29. The gist of my problem right now is that I can't figure out how to access the monitor, and I've tried various things with no luck so far. My

Re: Newbie, struggling with graphics and qemu monitor

2009-06-30 Thread Anthony Liguori
Avi Kivity wrote: On 06/30/2009 06:35 PM, Michael Jinks wrote: Hi List. I'm taking my first look at KVM, using version 85, on a Gentoo system with kernel release 2.6.29. The gist of my problem right now is that I can't figure out how to access the monitor, and I've tried various things with

Re: Newbie, struggling with graphics and qemu monitor

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Jinks
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Avi Kivitya...@redhat.com wrote: On 06/30/2009 06:35 PM, Michael Jinks wrote: My first hitch was that apparently SDL isn't working properly on my system, because running a console with SDL enabled just prints garbage characters to my xterm. snip I'd start

Re: Newbie, struggling with graphics and qemu monitor

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Jinks
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Anthony Liguorianth...@codemonkey.ws wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: Sounds like you have SDL configured to use libaa and are running qemu without DISPLAY set. Sure enough, libsdl was built with aalib support... I could swear I'd tried SDL from a VNC session but

Re: Newbie, struggling with graphics and qemu monitor

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Jinks
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Michael Jinksmichael.ji...@gmail.com wrote: I'm rebuilding libsdl with aalib switched off now, will see what happens next. Small differences: Over ssh, the console boots with an SDL display, and my xterm window title set to caca for ncurses, but it's printing

Re: Newbie, struggling with graphics and qemu monitor

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Jinks
In an attempt to get past unrelated interference I just set up an X session with only an xterm, used that to launch VNC connecting to my KVM test host, and tried to launch my test guest again. Same behavior: Ctl-Alt patterns are ignored, as are any other keystrokes I try to send to the qemu

Re: Newbie, struggling with graphics and qemu monitor

2009-06-30 Thread Charles Duffy
Michael Jinks wrote: Given the way qemu and screen interact, using the same keystrokes to initiate commands, it would be really useful to have some other way to detach and re-attach to a kvm guest on the fly. It's pretty easy to configure screen to use a different set of keystrokes. I find