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

Gleb Natapov
2010-01-16T15:36:33Z

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 08:04:29AM -0600, Jimmy Crossley wrote:
> I am running Windows 7 Enterprise x64 (64 bit) as a guest and the arrow keys and the 6 editing keys (insert, delete, home, end, pgup, and pgdn) do not repeat. All other keys, including the function keys F1-F12 repeat. I am very sure this is not a Windows 7 setting. Windows 7 32 bit and Linux guests do not have this problem.
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> Another symptom, which I think is related, is that characters seem slow to echo in the guest. If a key repeats, it echos just fine as it is repeating. If I type different characters really fast, nothing echoes until I stop typing.
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> The host is a Lenovo Thinkpad T400 with 4GB of RAM. I am running kvm-72 under Debian GNU/Linux testing (squeeze), kernel 2.6.30-bpo.2-amd64 from the standard squeeze repositories. Here is the specific command I am using.
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This is ancient old. Can you try latest version?

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