Problem with qemu-kvm: keyboard and mouse
qemu-kvm wasn’t detecting my mouse and keyboard during emulation for some reason. I’d click on the qemu window and nothing would happen. Even weirder, it was opening up in TTY8—that is, completely separate from Xorg.
Eventually, I found out the problem that some VMPlayer background daemon was still hanging around, somehow forcing qemu-kvm to TTY8 and stealing its mouse and keyboard focus.
I removed VMPlayer and all was well again. qemu-kvm even opened up within Xorg.
