Description of problem:

I've installed KVM and libvirt from debian packages, release Lenny, AMD_64

After installation all worked fine.   I switched my guest (Vista) to display in a SDL windows, and again all worked fine.   

Some days later I tried to run my guest again and I got the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 531, in run_domain
    vm.startup()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 380, in startup
    self.vm.create()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 262, in create
    if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
libvirtError: internal error QEMU quit during console startup
No protocol specified
No protocol specified

     =======================|  DirectFB 1.0.1  |=======================
          (c) 2001-2007  The DirectFB Organization (directfb.org)
          (c) 2000-2004  Convergence (integrated media) GmbH
        ------------------------------------------------------------

(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2008-08-17 14:50) 
(*) Direct/Memcpy: Using libc memcpy()
(!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' and '/dev/fb/0' failed
    --> No such file or directory
(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Error opening framebuffer device!
(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Use 'fbdev' option or set FRAMEBUFFER environment variable.
(!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core!
    --> Initialization error!
Could not initialize SDL - exiting

If I reinstall the libvirt packages, it will work again, but only for a short time.


I believe the problem has to do with the environment passed to Qemu.  If I run Qemu via the KVM command it will start up the SDL window, although I'm not doing something right when doing this as Vista doesn't boot properly and blue screens.  

I read that if SDL can find the DISPLAY variable then it trys the frame buffer.





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Version identified in the Debian package 4.6-10


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