According to the Debian bug tracker, this has been fixed with this upstream commit: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=ab51b1d568e02c80b1abf9016bda3a86dc1db389 ... so let's close this now.
** Changed in: qemu Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1024275 Title: bad iteraction between -daemonize and -nographic Status in QEMU: Fix Released Status in qemu package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: $ qemu -daemonize -nographic $ _ After this, the terminal is switched to some weird mode, not processing cr/lf, and not showing the characters being typed (it is fixable by using `stty sane'). Something is seriously wrong here: When -daemonize is given, qemu not touch tty parameters at all. Thanks, /mjt To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1024275/+subscriptions