A-ha, the reason is that this only triggers if the qemu window is focused. Running the script while focusing does reproduce (and do other weird things).
So perhaps this is happening in sdl_grab_start(), which exits early if the app is not focused? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1257352 Title: kvm hangs occasionally when switching out of the qemu console Status in QEMU: New Status in “qemu” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: To recreate (although this does *NOT* fail most of the time alas): 1) press "ctrl-alt-2" to switch to the qemu console. 2) type say "sendkey ctrl-alt-f1" 3) press "ctrl-alt-1". Expected outcome: Switch to tty1 in the VM. Actual outcome: No switch to tty1 in the VM. and qemu console unresponsive to any keyboard input. Rather a vague problem description I'm afraid but this has happened to me 3 times recently. No crash and no excessive CPU is observed. I'll grab an strace when it happens again and attach... ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: qemu-system-x86 1.6.0+dfsg-2ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-4.12-generic 3.12.1 Uname: Linux 3.12.0-4-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu1 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Tue Dec 3 15:41:40 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-10-21 (1139 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) SourcePackage: qemu UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-11-01 (31 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1257352/+subscriptions
