[Bug 545426] [NEW] SDL support broken

[Ancoron Luziferis]

Public bug reported:

Although SDL works perfectly with QEMU/KVM itself the appropriate
support using libvirt is completely broken.

System info:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release:        10.04

$ uname -a
Linux workstation 2.6.32-16-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 9 16:33:12 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ apt-cache policy libvirt0
libvirt0:
  Installed: 0.7.5-5ubuntu13
  Candidate: 0.7.5-5ubuntu13
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.5-5ubuntu13 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Example domain XML excerpt:

$ virsh -c qemu:///system dumpxml aria | grep graphics
    <graphics type='sdl' display=':0.0' xauth='/home/myself/.Xauthority'/>


...virsh invocation:

$ sudo virsh -c qemu:///system start aria
error: Failed to start domain aria
error: monitor socket did not show up.: Connection refused

Contents of /var/log/libvirt/qemu/aria.log:

LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin XAUTHORITY=/home/myself/.Xauthority DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-0.12 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp 4 -name aria -uuid a4294a0d-a75a-a377-ddcd-7e35d5720815 -chardev socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/aria.monitor,server,nowait -monitor chardev:monitor -localtime -boot c -drive file=/srv/virtual/aria-win2k3.img,if=ide,index=0,boot=on,format=raw -drive file=/srv/virtual/win2003-x64.iso,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2,format=raw -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:76:e9:1d,vlan=0,name=nic.0 -net tap,fd=49,vlan=0,name=tap.0 -chardev pty,id=serial0 -serial chardev:serial0 -parallel none -usb -usbdevice tablet -vga std 
char device redirected to /dev/pts/7
pci_add_option_rom: failed to find romfile "pxe-rtl8139.bin"
No protocol specified
No protocol specified

   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| DirectFB 1.2.8 |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        (c) 2001-2008  The world wide DirectFB Open Source Community
        (c) 2000-2004  Convergence (integrated media) GmbH
      ----------------------------------------------------------------

(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2010-02-03 18:27) 
(*) Direct/Memcpy: Using libc memcpy()
(!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' failed
    --> Permission denied
(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Error opening framebuffer device!
(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Use 'fbdev' option or set FRAMEBUFFER environment variable.
(!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system_core' core!
    --> Initialization error!
Could not initialize SDL - exiting


Taking that logged command-line and executing it in a terminal works perfectly (at least the X window shows up and without parameter "-S" the VM boots fine).

** Affects: libvirt (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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SDL support broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/545426
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