On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 22:15 -0400, ergodic wrote:
# qemu -hda /dev/sdd1 -m 256 -std-vga
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
Could not initialize SDL - exiting
As dmc says, you'll want to use -hda /dev/sdd but the bigger problem is
your last line. The user you're running as can't access X to actually
do the display. So you'll either need to give it access via xauth or
use -vnc and connect via vnc
Jeremy