Re: [Qemu-devel] getting past the ctrl-alt-del login in NT

[Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 9/25/05, Michael McConnell <soruk@eridani.co.uk> wrote:
> Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 09:58:30PM +1200, Wesley Parish wrote:
> >
> >>Does anyone using qemu know how to do that?  bochs has a setting in its
> >>bochsrc file that allows you to click on "user-configured button" and it
> >>sends ctrl-alt-del to WinNT 4.0.
> >>
> >>Is there any analogy to that in qemu?
> >
> > I'm almost 100% certain the qemu monitor has an option to send keycodes
> > that you need for workarounds in certain situations.
> >
> > DISCLAIMER: Not A Qemu User (tm)
>
> 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

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