Re: [Qemu-devel] [BUG] GTK terminal is broken

[Stefan Weil]

Am 29.07.2013 18:04, schrieb Stefan Weil:
> Hello,
>
> maybe most developers will already have noticed that the terminal output
> in QEMU's GTK user interface is broken. As far as I know, it never worked,
> but as there are working alternatives, I did not care much and forgot to
> report the issues.
>
> See these snapshots which show the problems with QEMU's GTK terminals:
>
> http://qemu.weilnetz.de/test/bugs/qemu-gtk-demo1.png
>
> Here the first line of the QEMUmonitor is only partially visible.
> Tested with Cygwin/X on W64 host, QEMU running on Debian Linux.
> Other X servers (e.g. native X on Debian Linux) don't show this problem.
>
>
> http://qemu.weilnetz.de/test/bugs/qemu-gtk-demo2.png
>
> This shows crippled output of "help" in the QEMU monitor
> (look for "default frequency" at the bottom of the page).
> Tested with several X servers.
>
>
> http://qemu.weilnetz.de/test/bugs/qemu-gtk-demo3.png
>
> This shows crippled output in the QEMU serial console.
> The Linux kernel boot messages are hardly readable.
> Tested with several X servers, x86 and mips kernels,
> GTK 2 and GTK 3.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> StefanW.
>

This is just a reminder that the GTK terminal is still broken in QEMU 1.7.
It only seems to work with KVM and in the monitor window, but it is
unusable in serial consoles which are typically needed for embedded
system emulation (ARM, MIPS, ...).

For GTK, it's not a regression because it never worked. All known hosts are
affected. The serial console remains usable with SDL or stdio.

See this link for more details:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-07/msg05740.html

Regards,
Stefan

PS. For MinGW, I compile QEMU without console support because there is
no VTE for that platform.