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Hello,
I wrote a small sample boot sector to see QEMU run it... It worked.. it displayed the little "Hello World" message I wrote in assembly...
I instructed the code to loop infinitely...
Now... how to turn it off? In X, I would just click the "X" and it turned off...
I tried running this in console to see if it will work without X... It worked... but then looped infinitely... Usual Ctrl+C of course didn't work. I went into another window and typed "top" to see where is qemu.. then I typed "kill [proc id]" ...it tells me I have no permission to do so... I didn't understand why, after all, I ran this thing as a regular user. I didn't want qemu to be taking up all CPU, so I decided to kill it with root. ....it worked, but for some reason, it killed my ability to do anything, including switching screens.
I did a hard reboot.. when I turn on X, it loads LXDE as usual, but for some reason, there is no background.. on the panel, some of the items are missing. Now, any time I try running qemu, it tells me "Could not initialize SDL - exiting" ....well, I am not sure what is wrong. Does anybody else?
I tried reinstalling sdl.. that didn't do anything...
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Good news - LXDE starts up correctly again. (I restarted X) ... qemu works in X. It gives the error without X... possibly it would be fixed if I reset the computer? I am not going to reboot it for that though.. at least not yet.
Any input on this stuff would be great.
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