Cinap suggested invoking realemu in a subshell so that the process exits after aux/vga completes. The following is a patch for the man page.
-sl % diff -n -c /sys/man/8/realemu.orig /sys/man/8/realemu /sys/man/8/realemu.orig:84,89 - /sys/man/8/realemu:84,102 the .I srvname argument then it is ignored, otherwise it will used. + .SH EXAMPLES + The + .I realemu + process is only needed when accessing + .B /dev/realmode. + To invoke a subshell so that + .I realemu + exits normally after + .B aux/vga + completes: + .IP + .EX + % @{rfork n; aux/realemu; aux/vga -m vesa -l $vgasize} .SH SOURCE .B /sys/src/cmd/aux/realemu .SH "SEE ALSO"