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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:08:17 -0600
From:      "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
To:        "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: qemu on FreeBSD 9.3R ....
Message-ID:  <54C72B51.8030101@hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: <54C72ABF.8050504@hiwaay.net>
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On 01/27/15 00:05, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>
> .... I pkg-installed kqemu-kmod-1.3.0.p11_12 & qemu-0.11.1_18 for 
> FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p5 & followed instructions on 
> http://virtuallyhyper.com/2013/02/running-vms-on-freebsd-using-qemu-with-vde/ 
> down to the point of installing a VM. The example installs a RHEL 
> guest, I wanted to try WinXP, so I did 'qemu -cdrom 
> ../../ISOs/winxp.iso -hda HDD.img -m 256 -boot d -localtime' from the 
> directory containing the HDD image 'HDD.img'. The screen (rxvt-2.6.4_6 
> running stock csh) immediately grunged up & left itself in a grunged 
> up state :-/. Is there a way to re-initialize the rxvt state after 
> such antics, to get it to forget whatever grunged state the (failed, I 
> killed it after ~45 min.) qemu process left it in ? TIA ....
>
> P.S.: the qemu man page is also somewhat off/out of date, some of the 
> options mentioned there don't work ....
>
>

P.P.S: the grunged up state applies to the mouse only, keyboard & 
display of text, etc. works AOK, but click-&-drag to select text & other 
mouse based interactions don't work ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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