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

Jimmy Crossley
2010-01-16T19:00:04Z

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-----Original Message-----

> From: Gleb Natapov [mailto:gleb@redhat.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 09:37
> To: Jimmy Crossley
> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Some keys don't repeat in 64 bit Widows 7 kvm guest
>
> 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> This is ancient old. Can you try latest version?
>
> --
> Gleb.

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.