From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] getting past the ctrl-alt-del login in NT
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:33:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509251433.53902.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4e03026a05092505483350c2e0@mail.gmail.com>
> > I have an NT4 installation under QEMU on my Linux box - and in grab
> > mode, all I do is... press CTRL-ALT-DEL. Clicking in the window or
> > hitting CTRL-ALT enters grab mode.
>
> FWIW: the CTRL-ALT-DEL sequence has been chosen so that it can't be
> caught by a any program but windows (that to prevent trojan horses to
> log your password instead of Windows's logging window). That means
> that it's probably not possible to directly send the CTRL-ALT-DEL
> sequence, but instead you need to map another series of keys that qemu
> can send to the guest OS.
That's only true if you're on a windows host. There's nothing intrinsically
special about ctrl-alt-del.
Many environments do trap that combination before it gets to user
applications, mainly for consistency with windows/dos, but it's by no means
universal.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-25 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-25 9:58 [Qemu-devel] getting past the ctrl-alt-del login in NT Wesley Parish
2005-09-25 10:28 ` Andreas Mohr
2005-09-25 12:09 ` Michael McConnell
2005-09-25 12:48 ` Guillaume POIRIER
2005-09-25 13:19 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-09-25 13:33 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2005-09-26 0:46 ` Mike Swanson
2005-09-26 8:28 ` Wesley Parish
2005-09-25 13:00 ` Hetz Ben Hamo
2005-09-26 8:28 ` Wesley Parish
2005-09-26 17:44 ` John R. Hogerhuis
2005-09-26 20:08 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-09-26 21:05 ` John R. Hogerhuis
2005-09-25 13:17 ` Jim C. Brown
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