Bug 504226
| Summary: | qemu-kvm binary should support the '-curses' option | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Matty <matty91> |
| Component: | kvm | Assignee: | Glauber Costa <gcosta> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | berrange, clalance, ehabkost, gcosta, markmc, quintela, virt-maint |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | qemu-0.10.50-6.kvm86.fc12 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-06-05 09:33:47 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This is already certainly due to the RPM missing a BuildRequires dependency on ncurses-devel. The configure script probes for curses.h and curses_version(), and automatically disables curses support if missing. Thanks, fixed in rawhide now with qemu-0.10.50-6.kvm86.fc12: * Fri Jun 5 2009 Mark McLoughlin <markmc> - 2:0.10.50-6.kvm86 - Fix 'kernel requires an x86-64 CPU' error - BuildRequires ncurses-devel to enable '-curses' option (#504226) |
Description of problem: The qemu-kvm option doesn't currently support the '-curses' flag: [root@disarm ~]# uname -a Linux disarm 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 18 11:58:53 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@disarm ~]# qemu-kvm -help | grep curses [root@disarm ~]# qemu-kvm -curses qemu-kvm: invalid option -- '-curses' But the manual page shipped with fedora 10 lists this as a valid option: -curses Normally, QEMU uses SDL to display the VGA output. With this option, QEMU can display the VGA output when in text mode using a curses/ncurses interface. Nothing is displayed in graphical mode. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 10 with the latest KVM and Qemu packages: [root@disarm ~]# rpm -q -a | egrep '(kvm|qemu)' qemu-img-0.9.1-10.fc10.x86_64 kvm-74-11.fc10.x86_64 etherboot-roms-kvm-5.4.4-5.fc10.x86_64 How reproducible: Listed above. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Steps are listed above. Actual results: BIOS screens and early interaction is currently unavailable from the console (you can still get to this it you enable vnc though). Expected results: The early boot screens should be displayed. Additional info: None.