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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 09:19:48 -0400
From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] getting past the ctrl-alt-del login in NT
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To: Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 02:48:51PM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I have an NT4 installation under QEMU on my Linux box - and in grab
> > mode, all I do is... press CTRL-ALT-DEL. Clicking in the window or
> > hitting CTRL-ALT enters grab mode.
> 
> FWIW: the CTRL-ALT-DEL sequence has been chosen so that it can't be
> caught by a any program but windows (that to prevent trojan horses to
> log your password instead of Windows's logging window). That means
> that it's probably not possible to directly send the CTRL-ALT-DEL
> sequence, but instead you need to map another series of keys that qemu
> can send to the guest OS.
> 
> Guillaume
> 

That restriction doesn't seem to apply to Linux/X.

But I agree, using sendkey is probably smarter.

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