Re: [Qemu-devel] virtual machine halting and loosing connections

[Paul Brook]

On Wednesday 28 March 2007 01:22, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> On 28/03/07, Kyle Hubert <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I've been looking online, but I can't say that I have found the answer
> > to this yet.
> >
> > When using QEMU, I've noticed that if I switch away to a different
> > virtual desktop on the host OS's WM, then QEMU stops what it is doing.
> > It's really clear when it's in the middle of a boot, but it always
> > occurs. This causes havoc since I'm using qemu as an ssh client and
> > the server I'm connecting to drops me for inactivity. This doesn't
> > matter if I use keepalive or not.
>
> Just confirming that I'm seeing the same thing, and it's not a recent
> problem because I remember it happening in 0.7.2 and earlier.

My guess is it's a bug in your X server, window manager or SDL. If the X 
server stops responding then qemu will stall.

Paul