Hi all! Recently I found some problems after upgrading one of our virtual machines from ubuntu 10.10. to later releases. Root problem is inactive VNC terminal after booting grub. It happens because of using framebuffer at boot process. To fix this problem you should change at /etc/default/grub: GRUB_TERMINAL=console And run # update-grub # reboot This fixes problem. But I think there should be some fix to use fb in vnc without problems. I use: libvirt 0.9.11.3 QEMU emulator version 1.0 (qemu-kvm-1.0 Debian 1.0+dfsg-8~bpo60+1), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard <graphics type='vnc' port='PORT' autoport='no' listen='IP'> <listen type='address' address='IP'/> </graphics> <video> <model type='cirrus' vram='9216' heads='1'/> <alias name='video0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </video> -- Nikita A Menkovich http://libc6.org/ JID: menkovich(a)gmail.com