As a test (should have done this in the first place) I started the VM manually via the stated command line from the log file in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/.
KVM/QEMU uses SDL by default and it opens just fine and I can use the VM as usual. So this has nothing to do with KVM/QEMU itself. As starting the VM using "virt-manager" or the "virsh" command fails it must have something to do with those. Instead it seems that libvirt does not use and/or forward the "DISPLAY" environment variable (or the specified one in the appropriate <graphics/> tag) when SDL is specified for a VM. This is documented here: http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsGraphics So if it doesn't work it's a bug in libvirt. -- Local SDL window does not work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226273 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
