I met the same problem on one machine today.
I was trying to create KVM on vncserver, but always failed with "Could not
initialize SDL - exiting"
I get around this issue with set DISPLAY to 1 again
# export DISPLAY=:1
Thanks
Yunfeng
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerb Stralko
>Sent: 2007年8月1日 10:26
>To: Avi Kivity
>Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] problem running kvm with 2.6.22
>
>On 7/31/07, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Gerb Stralko wrote:
>> > however when i run the following commands:
>> >
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -hda
>> > /mnt/kvm/win32xp.img -cdrom /mnt/kvm/win32xp.iso -boot d -m 512
>> > Could not initialize SDL - exiting
>> >
>
>This is weird, when i do
>$>su -
>$>/usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -hda \
> /mnt/kvm/win32xp.img \
> -cdrom /mnt/kvm/win32xp.iso -boot d -m 512
>
>it works like a champ! Some permission problem with SDL (i guess),
>kvm is working fine...sorry for the noise.
>
>-gerb
>
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