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

Jimmy Crossley
2010-03-10T06:15:58Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gleb Natapov [mailto:gleb@redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 00:58
> To: Jimmy Crossley
> Cc: 'Jim Paris'; 'kvm@vger.kernel.org'
> Subject: Re: Some keys don't repeat in 64 bit Widows 7 kvm guest
>
> 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.

Closing out this old thread: I returned from my trip away from this machine and the first thing I did, of course, was install all the updates waiting for me - both for the debian host and the Windows 7 client. Something in there fixed my autorepeat problem, so I'm sticking with kvm 0.11.1 for now. This is my primary work computer, so I want to stick with the standard repositories as much as possible.

Thanks for everyone's suggestions.