I have emerged ~amd64 versions of app-emulation/qemu and media-libs/libsdl in an attempt to get the SDL machine emulation to work right. When launching qemu with a blank disk image I don't get a graphical display, I get a terrible representation of the image on my terminal. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1 (must allow ~amd64). USE flag settings: X aalib alsa -arts -debug -dga -directfb -esd -fbcon -ggi -libcaca -nas -noaudio -nojoystick -novideo opengl oss -xinerama xv 2. Emerge app-emulation/qemu-0.6.1-r1 (must allow ~amd64). USE flag settings: sdl softmmu 3. Create standard empty disk image: 'qemu-img create test.img 3G'. 4. Create executable script "qemu-ifup.sh" with these contents: ifconfig tun0 10.0.1.6 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.1.255 up (Must have Universal TUN/TAP device support). 5. Launch qemu from an X terminal: 'sudo qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d -m 256 -localtime -n qemu-ifup.sh test.img'. Watch as the output shows up as little dots on the terminal (using aterm) rather than a nice GUI display. Actual Results: The SDL display never launches, a dotted representation of the boot image is shown on the terminal instead. (I will include a screenshot attachment.) Expected Results: Should have launched the QEMU SDL display in a seperate window and displayed as if booting a real system from the CDROM. Running xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1, fluxbox-0.9.12-r1, nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r1 for GeForce 6800. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r12 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r12 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 14 2005, 20:32:49)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aac aalib acpi alsa apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux dvd dvdr encode esd exif fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java jp2 jpeg junit kde ldap libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mozilla mp3 mpeg multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nvidia oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl snmp spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales xine xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xv xvid zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 53971 [details] Screenshot of the "dotted" terminal output
I see now that the error is in my invocation of 'sudo'. The tun device used for the network is not accessible for my user, so I wanted to invoke qemu as root rather than modify permissions for the tun device. Should have troubleshot a bit more, looks like :-\
