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 mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
