Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-input questions

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

  Hi,

> > Seems I'll try to start from the curses.c then, if that's better way 
> > (my knowledge of qemu codebase is zero and I'm not a good developer 
> > either, but I may try in my free time since I need this and I'd like 

I wouldn't bother with curses.  Better grab input events directly at the
source, like virtio-input-host does.  Check out
hw/input/virtio-input-host.c, or https://www.kraxel.org/cgit/input/
(probably gives a better idea how to interpret the linux input layer
events).

Also note that hw/input/virtio-input-hid.c has a qcode -> linux mapping
table, which should be usable to generate a reverse mapping.  You'll
need that to feed linux keyboard events into the qemu input code.

> > to see it upstream - there are more people trying vga passthrough who 
> > possibly need this :)) At least keyboard, mouse is nice to have, but 
> > that can be done with the virtio-input, it's not crucial eg. during 
> > installation where you may not have those drivers.

If virtio-input works for the mouse it should work equally well for
keyboard.  Guest drivers are upstream in kernel 4.1 & newer.  Fedora 22
should work once you've updated the kernel (shipped with kernel 4.0.x,
now at 4.2.x).  With the just released Fedora 23 virtio-input should
even work on the install media (didn't test that yet though ...).

> > I was just wondering if you don't have a bunch of testing VMs that 
> > you've already used for this to quickly rule out one side (host or 
> > guest).

I'm using standard fedora install, without any special tweaks (other
than a self-compiled kernel in the early days, but even that isn't
needed any more).

cheers,
  Gerd