device: 0.893
performance: 0.827
boot: 0.815
graphic: 0.810
other: 0.669
semantic: 0.623
network: 0.512
permissions: 0.505
PID: 0.429
socket: 0.415
vnc: 0.411
debug: 0.401
files: 0.319
KVM: 0.047

The guest is only starting after its SDL window gets focus

I’m using i3wm and have workspace assigning rules that make QEMU’s SDL window be assigned to a workspace I don’t really switch to.

When I run start a guest machine, its SDL window is moved to that workspace (I never see it); but the machine freezes after displaying that black window. It only starts booting after I switch to the workspace and view the window.

Which version of SDL have you been using here? SDL 1.2 or SDL 2.0? If you were using 1.2, could you please try with 2.0 instead? Support for 1.2 has been removed now.

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