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To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
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On 02/28/10 02:38, Paul Brook wrote:
>> Usually guests use the keyboard leds to signal the capslock and numlock
>> state to the user, so we can use this to better keep track of capslock
>> and numlock state in the qemu vnc server.
>
> Isn't this going to break horribly when my guest starts flashing the capslock
> light in response to network traffic?

Yes, if the guest plays blinkenlights with the keyboard leds this 
breaks.  I've considered adding option to turn this off, but then 
decided to wait and see whenever it actually is a problem in practice.

The only common case I'm aware of is the linux kernel panic blinking.

I'll add a option to turn this off if you think we'll need one.

cheers,
   Gerd