I have still not managed to get the monitor to work,
but at least I've got vnc and ssh so that's some
progress.
I've had to bump the loop_max value *way* up to let
me get any work done... it's not just failed builds
that seem to hang a loopback forever, it appears that
any vm build leaves a loopback behind that can only
be removed by reboot, and servers are not things you
reboot very often. Under normal conditions the server
I was working on might get rebooted once a year. Or
less.
But I have made some progress. Next item: qemu indicates
that it can map a host drive to the VM, and I need to
do this. I've got a 1.5TB drive that the new VM has to
mount. I cannot seem to see how to express this mapping
of host /dev/sdc to an internal VM mount.
Any one know how to do it?