Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests.

[Paul Brook]

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.

> 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.

Paul