Story so far:

1. pick q35 chipset

2. qemu -M q35 etc. etc. 

1. pick i440fx chipset. 

2. qemu -M pc etc. etc. 

Endless repetitions of

qemu: unsupported keyboard cmd cmd=0x00

or 0x80

This is with crossgcc.

I'm disappointed it's this fragile. I'm worried that feature push has gotten ahead of reliability push.

ron