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

[Rick Vernam]

On Tuesday 27 March 2007 08:53:42 pm Rick Vernam wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 March 2007 06:34:04 pm Kyle Hubert 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.
>
> I can say that I do not get this behavior.
> Host OS is linux, no-frills Xorg, KDE.
> I start up one of my VMs and switch to different desktop...a minute or so
> later I'm able to ssh to that VM - after starting it, I never even visited
> the desktop it's on.

fwiw, I run 64-bit (host) kernel.  all guest stuff is 32 bit.