Are you backgrounding qemu? If you just call it from the CLI, it won't fork into the background and return the terminal to you. You could launch it with "nohup <your command> &" and it should return the terminal to you.
On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Roman Mamedov <r...@romanrm.net> wrote: > On Mon, 8 May 2017 16:58:22 -0700 > Nick S <nick.kv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The host console is associated with emulated VGA and indeed becomes just > a > > useful window to grab/release your keyboard and mouse focus. It is used > > during the boot process and displays whatever was the last output before > > your OS switched to the passthrough GPU. I am not sure what you are > trying > > to fix here, it may be possible to completely get rid of this console and > > use your passthrough card for boot as well, but overall it works as > > designed. You normally need a separate display cable and port to see your > > guest output. > > I feel you are reading that I was talking about the Qemu console window; I > did > not, I meant the actual prompt in the 80x25 text mode on a physical > monitor. > > My monitor is connected to the host video card and that is OK. (I do not > need > to see my guest output on the monitor, VNC access to the guest OS is enough > for my task). > > The host machine does not use Xorg, it boots into said text console only. > I log-in and launch the shell script which starts the guest. After that, > the content shown on the host's video card monitor stops updating > (freezes), > and all local access to the host machine via the connected > monitor/keyboard is > effectively lost until reboot. This is the problem. (Incidentally, trying > to > switch consoles with Alt-F1...Alt-FX does not work either). It does not > blank > out either, just whatever was last printed there stays displayed and frozen > indefinitely. > > How can I keep the host video card and text console working while the guest > is running (which uses another video card)? > > -- > With respect, > Roman > > _______________________________________________ > vfio-users mailing list > vfio-users@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users >
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