qemu-kvm: can't enter Alt-Ctl-DEL ....

[Andrew Farris]

Tom London wrote:
> Just noticed that after a few day's rawhide updates, that qemu-kvm
> (and qemu) of a WinXP image no longer properly displays the cursor,
> and won't allow "Alt-Ctl-Delete" to be captured.  So I can't login to
> Windows.....
> 
> This happens with both qemu-kvm and qemu, with SELiinux enforcing or permissive.
> 
> Reverting kvm does not fix this.
> 
> Currently running kvm-61-2.fc9.i386 and qemu-0.9.1-3.fc9.i386 (and
> rawhide as of yesterday).
> 
> Any thoughts? Anyone else seeing this?

Just a guess, but could be due to the problems with X auto input configuration 
(hal) and the recent xorg server changes [1].  Supposedly backing up to a prior 
xorg server should workaround, although I'm still getting some issues after 
doing that.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434669

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