Sorry, I can neither confirm or deny whether or not the issue still exists.
I have long since switched from virt-manager to VirtualBox.

Best regards,

Arne Frick

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Marc Deslauriers <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Thanks for reporting this issue.
> Do you still have it?
> Are you able to reproduce it with a recent version of Ubuntu, such as
> Karmic or Lucid?
>
>
> ** Changed in: virt-manager (Ubuntu)
>     Assignee: (unassigned) => ktulu (eric-duda)
>
> ** Changed in: virt-manager (Ubuntu)
>       Status: Triaged => Incomplete
>
> --
> Local SDL window does not work
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226273
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “virt-manager” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: virt-manager
>
> After starting a VM with SDL, I get the following error:
>
> Error starting domain: virDomainCreate() failed QEMU quit during console
> startup
>
>     =======================|  DirectFB 1.0.1  |=======================
>          (c) 2001-2007  The DirectFB Organization (directfb.org)
>          (c) 2000-2004  Convergence (integrated media) GmbH
>        ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2008-04-08 15:15)
> (*) Direct/Memcpy: Using Generic 64bit memcpy()
> (!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' and '/dev/fb/0' failed
>    --> No such file or directory
> (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Error opening framebuffer device!
> (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Use 'fbdev' option or set FRAMEBUFFER environment
> variable.
> (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core!
>    --> Initialization error!
> Could not initialize SDL - exiting
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 480, in
> run_domain
>    vm.startup()
>  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 379, in startup
>    self.vm.create()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 240, in create
>    if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
> libvirtError: virDomainCreate() failed QEMU quit during console startup
>
>     =======================|  DirectFB 1.0.1  |=======================
>          (c) 2001-2007  The DirectFB Organization (directfb.org)
>          (c) 2000-2004  Convergence (integrated media) GmbH
>        ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2008-04-08 15:15)
> (*) Direct/Memcpy: Using Generic 64bit memcpy()
> (!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' and '/dev/fb/0' failed
>    --> No such file or directory
> (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Error opening framebuffer device!
> (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Use 'fbdev' option or set FRAMEBUFFER environment
> variable.
> (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core!
>    --> Initialization error!
> Could not initialize SDL - exiting
>
>
> ############################################################################
>
> Without SDL, I can't switch to qemu console. So it's not possible to
> connect USB devices.
>
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