Re: [Qemu-devel] Support for VNC LED state extension proposal

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> writes:

>   Hi,
>
>> When access a guest by console through VNC, there might be
>> mismatch between the lock keys notification LED on the computer
>> running the VNC client session and the current status of the lock
>> keys on the guest machine. This happens because the VNC protocol
>> does not have any support to deal with setting led state.
>
> What is the exact issue you are trying to fix here?
>
> The vnc server code in qemu already tracks the keyboard led state and
> will insert synthetic key events if needed to make sure vnc client and
> guest machine stay in sync.

If the guest changes LED state, we want to the client to update the
physical keyboard LED state.

Think thin client without an X server.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> cheers,
>   Gerd