Sam, Thanks for responding. There are two reasons: 1) virtual-manager is really slow on my system, PAINFULLY SLOW 2) I recall reading somewhere (RedHat or qemu.org) that virtual-manager was/is deprecated. Best regards, George... Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 16:14:50 -0800 From: Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: console for qemu VM running fc34 x86_64 Rawhide To: test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <857fefa8-daa0-2dc3-695c-eb9cf7d7601b@xxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed On 1/26/21 4:03 PM, George R Goffe via test wrote: > I'm having some trouble with qemu and it's console for the vm. This was working fine and then along came the later versions of the 5.10 kernels. The "new" behavior makes a console that is about 75% bigger than the physical monitor. It's effectively unusable. > > Here is the script I use to start qemu. > > qemu-system-x86_64 \ > -name fc34v \ > -cdrom /isos/Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20210122.n.0.iso \ > -cpu host \ > -enable-kvm \ > -m 2g \ > -smp 2 \ > -drive file=/export/home/var-lib-libvirt-images/fc34-bt.img,format=raw \ > -trace file=/root/qemu-trace-events \ > -boot menu=on,reboot-timeout=15 Is there a reason you're running qemu directly instead of using something like virt-manager? _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
