[Qemu-devel] Keyboard/Mouse issues on WinXP loadvm

[Qemu-devel] Keyboard/Mouse issues on WinXP loadvm

[Andrew Barr]

The virtual keyboard and mouse appear to be confused after loadvm'ing on 
Windows XP SP2 (and 2000 SP4 as well) guest (Qemu CVS on Linux host). The 
control key appears to be stuck down. While looking for something unrelated 
in the mailing list archives, I found these:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-05/msg00021.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-05/msg00000.html

It appears to be describing the exact same problem, but on a Linux guest. The 
suggested solution was to press Ctrl, Shift, Alt one after the other after 
restoring the VM. This doesn't appear to work on my Windows guest. Is there 
another way to fix this?

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Keyboard/Mouse issues on WinXP loadvm

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Andrew Barr wrote:

> The virtual keyboard and mouse appear to be confused after loadvm'ing on 
> Windows XP SP2 (and 2000 SP4 as well) guest (Qemu CVS on Linux host). The 
> control key appears to be stuck down. While looking for something unrelated 
> in the mailing list archives, I found these:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-05/msg00021.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-05/msg00000.html
> 
> It appears to be describing the exact same problem, but on a Linux guest. The 
> suggested solution was to press Ctrl, Shift, Alt one after the other after 
> restoring the VM. This doesn't appear to work on my Windows guest. Is there 
> another way to fix this?

Okay, let's recapitulate: you

- switch to the console by hitting Ctrl+Alt+2
- say savevm bla.vm
- exit

and then

- start qemu with "-loadvm bla.vm"?

Now think a little about what the emulated machine is doing!
The VM gets Ctrl+Alt and up to this point it does not yet know that you 
want to change to the console, so it dutifully reports these keyboard 
down events to the underlying machine. Since you then save the image and 
exit, the saved state still contains that information: the Ctrl and Shift 
keys are pressed.

So, either you did not really try to hit Ctrl and Alt keys, or Windows 
does other strange things. You could try to switch to the console and 
back, to see if qemu is getting the keys.

Hth,
Dscho

Re: [Qemu-devel] Keyboard/Mouse issues on WinXP loadvm

[maestro]

Am Mittwoch, den 29.03.2006, 21:26 -0500 schrieb Andrew Barr:
> The virtual keyboard and mouse appear to be confused after loadvm'ing on 
> Windows XP SP2 (and 2000 SP4 as well) guest (Qemu CVS on Linux host). The 
> control key appears to be stuck down. While looking for something unrelated 
> in the mailing list archives, I found these:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-05/msg00021.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-05/msg00000.html
> 
> It appears to be describing the exact same problem, but on a Linux guest. The 
> suggested solution was to press Ctrl, Shift, Alt one after the other after 
> restoring the VM. This doesn't appear to work on my Windows guest. Is there 
> another way to fix this?
> 

i dont know if it is the exactly same bahavior i encountered:
here the keys were >totaly< messed up (i used cvs version) on #qemu
irc-channel a patch for this was posted at the url:
http://jma-box.student.umd.edu:8080/ps2.diff


this might help - at least it did help fixing my problem.

cheers
maestro

p.s. paul brooks: is this to be going into cvs at some point, or did it
already happen and i missed it