Re: Some keys don't repeat in 64 bit Widows 7 kvm guest

Gleb Natapov
2010-01-22T06:58:04Z

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:35:08PM -0600, Jimmy Crossley wrote:
> I am now running qemu-kvm 0.11.1:
>
> $ kvm -h | head -1
> QEMU PC emulator version 0.11.1 (qemu-kvm-0.11.1), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
>
> My Windows 7 guest detected a lot of new hardware, but I still have the same key repeating problem. I think I will just leave this alone for now since I am going to be away from my office (and this machine) for several weeks. When I return, I plan on doing a clean install of everything. If I still have this issue, I will report back.
>
qemu-kvm-0.11.1 is still pretty old. The latest version is qemu-kvm-0.12
and you need to update you kernel modules too. Similarly sounding
problem was fixed by kernel changes a while ago.

> Thanks to everyone for your help.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org] On
> > Behalf Of Jimmy Crossley
> > Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 21:33
> > To: 'Jim Paris'
> > Cc: 'Gleb Natapov'; kvm@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: RE: Some keys don't repeat in 64 bit Widows 7 kvm guest
> >
> > > From: jim@jim.sh [mailto:jim@jim.sh] On Behalf Of Jim Paris
> > > Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 20:40
> > > To: Jimmy Crossley
> > > Cc: 'Gleb Natapov'; kvm@vger.kernel.org
> > > Subject: Re: Some keys don't repeat in 64 bit Widows 7 kvm guest
> > >
> > > Jimmy Crossley wrote:
> > > > Thanks for the quick response, Gleb. You are right - we should
> > not
> > > > spend our time troubleshooting an issue with something this old.
> > > > I'll try downloading all the sources and headers I need to build
> > > > kvm-88. I think I'll need another Debian install, since this is a
> > > > production machine and I don't want to destabilize it. Go ahead
> > and
> > > > laugh - I ran Debian stable for years before finally deciding I
> > > > could risk running testing.
> > >
> > > Debian testing still has the "kvm" package at version 72, but the
> > new
> > > package name "qemu-kvm" is at version 0.11.0 which is quite a bit
> > > newer.
> > >
> > > -jim
> >
> > It looks like I need to switch to qemu-kvm. That kvm package that I
> > have
> > Installed (72+dfsg=5+squeeze1) is not in the squeeze repositories any
> > more.
> >
> > It sure is hard to keep up with everything. Thanks, Jim.
> >
> >
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Gleb.