I can not reproduce this issue using -curses with the latest version of qemu, so I guess this has been fixed somewhen during the last years ... if nobody else can reproduce it, I think we should close this bug.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/612677 Title: qemu-kvm -curses displays garbled screen Status in QEMU: New Bug description: when I launch qemu-kvm -curses (even without a guest OS) I get a garbled output, here's a screenshot: http://kontsevoy.com/qemu.png some more info: myarch ~: uname -a Linux myarch 2.6.34-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 5 22:12:11 CEST 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux myarch ~: qemu-kvm --version QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.5 (qemu-kvm-0.12.5), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard I also fetched the latest qemu-kvm from git repo and compiled it with simple ./configure&make The compiled version behaved similarly I also tried different terminal emulators: gnome-terminal and xterm - same thing I also tried real terminal (i.e. booted without X) - same thing Then I thought maybe the issue is my hardware (if its possible) and booted into Ubuntu on the same machine, installed KVM for Ubuntu and it worked there. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/612677/+subscriptions
