On Thu, 20 May 2010, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Display works with 32 bpp (both host + guest) only. > Which surprisingly didn't cause much problems so far in my testing. > Host runs with kms and inteldrmfb. > > Mouse support isn't available yet. > I've cheated by passed through the hosts usb mouse for testing. > > Keyboard works. Guest screen has whatever keymap you load inside > the guest. Text windows (monitor, serial, ...) have a simple en-us > keymap. Good enougth to type monitor commands. Not goot enougth to > work seriously on a serial terminal. But the qemu terminal emulation > isn't good enougth for that anyway ;) > > Hot keys: > Ctrl-Alt-F<nr> -> host console switching. > Ctrl-Alt-<nr> -> qemu console switching. > Ctrl-Alt-ESC -> exit qemu. > > Special feature: Sane console switching. Switching away stops screen > updates. Switching back redraws the screen. When started from the > linux console qemu uses the vt you've started it from (requires just > read/write access to /dev/fb0). When starting from somewhere else qemu > tries to open a unused virtual terminal and switch to it (usually > requires root privileges to open /dev/tty<nr>). > > For some strange reason console switching from X11 to qemu doesn't work. > Anything else (including X11 -> text console -> qemu) works fine. To be > investigated ... > Not bad for quick start! Does qemu->qemu switching work when running multiple VMs?