I have still not managed to get the monitor to work, but at least I've got vnc and ssh so that's some progress. I've had to bump the loop_max value *way* up to let me get any work done... it's not just failed builds that seem to hang a loopback forever, it appears that any vm build leaves a loopback behind that can only be removed by reboot, and servers are not things you reboot very often. Under normal conditions the server I was working on might get rebooted once a year. Or less. But I have made some progress. Next item: qemu indicates that it can map a host drive to the VM, and I need to do this. I've got a 1.5TB drive that the new VM has to mount. I cannot seem to see how to express this mapping of host /dev/sdc to an internal VM mount. Any one know how to do it?
