semantic: 0.202 graphic: 0.162 other: 0.116 device: 0.090 debug: 0.063 network: 0.055 socket: 0.054 performance: 0.053 vnc: 0.048 files: 0.042 boot: 0.037 permissions: 0.031 PID: 0.029 KVM: 0.019 debug: 0.779 performance: 0.063 other: 0.031 files: 0.020 network: 0.020 PID: 0.017 socket: 0.014 device: 0.011 semantic: 0.010 graphic: 0.009 boot: 0.007 vnc: 0.007 KVM: 0.006 permissions: 0.005 bad iteraction between -daemonize and -nographic $ qemu -daemonize -nographic $ _ After this, the terminal is switched to some weird mode, not processing cr/lf, and not showing the characters being typed (it is fixable by using `stty sane'). Something is seriously wrong here: When -daemonize is given, qemu not touch tty parameters at all. Thanks, /mjt FWIW, it has been present at least since version 0.10 of qemu, and still present in current 1.1 version. According to the Debian bug tracker, this has been fixed with this upstream commit: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=ab51b1d568e02c80b1abf9016bda3a86dc1db389 ... so let's close this now.