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Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests.
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Rob Landley |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests. |
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Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:33:58 -0500 |
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On Friday 09 February 2007 5:27 pm, Paul Brook wrote:
> On Friday 09 February 2007 22:19, Rob Landley wrote:
> > 1) When you accidentally run qemu as root, could it NOT try to go into a
> > full-screen display by default resulting in a corrupted display you can't
> > break out of and have to power cycle the machine?
>
> This is a feature of your SDL libraries. They're probably trying to use
> console framebuffer output. Complain to whoever supplied your SDL libraries.
Ubuntu. And yeah, probably.
> > 2) After said reboot, when you're sanely running qemu as a normal user but
> > using the hda image file you made as root, if a hard drive image isn't
> > writeable, could it warn or something, rather than having the ubuntu
> > install mysteriously fail halfway through when it finds itself unable to
> > mount /dev/hda1 after it thinks it just partitioned the drive?
>
> I think this is also a feature. Previous versions would refuse to use
readonly
> images at all.
Could it warn? (I admit it'll probably get buried in the "ubuntu doesn't
default to 1024 hz and you're not root" warning, but I spent a day trying to
figure this one out. Slow reboots, and I thought it was another side effect
of the KDE timeouts. :)
Thanks,
Rob
--
"Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but
when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Rob Landley, 2007/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Paul Brook, 2007/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests.,
Rob Landley <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Dan Shearer, 2007/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Paul Brook, 2007/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Ed Swierk, 2007/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Paul Brook, 2007/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Daniel Jacobowitz, 2007/02/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Rob Landley, 2007/02/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Paul Brook, 2007/02/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests., Jan Marten Simons, 2007/02/12
- CAP_NET_ADMIN (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests.), Kevin F. Quinn, 2007/02/10
- Re: CAP_NET_ADMIN (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests.), Paul Brook, 2007/02/10