[libvirt-users] Windows guest skipping chkdsk if using Spice display

[Erik Skultety]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:13:59AM +0200, Gionatan Danti wrote:
> On 19/10/2018 08:13, Gionatan Danti wrote:
> > Il 17-10-2018 09:15 Gionatan Danti ha scritto:
> > > Hi all,
> > > as per subject, when a Windows guest using a Spice display is rebooted
> > > with a planned chkdsk, the consistency check is always skipped.
> > >
> > > It seems that the Spice display issues some "phantom" keystrokes,
> > > which are then intended by Windows as the "skip chkdsk at boot"
> > > signal.
> > >
> > > I tried to use a Spice display with no additional features (ie: USB
> > > redirection), but to no avail. To workaround the problem I must use a
> > > VNC display, which is less featureful than the Spice one.
> > >
> > > My system and package versions are:
> > > CentOS 7.5 x86-64
> > > spice-gtk3-0.34-3.el7_5.1.x86_64
> > > spice-server-0.14.0-2.el7_5.4.x86_64
> > > spice-glib-0.34-3.el7_5.1.x86_64
> > > libvirt-3.9.0-14.el7_5.7.x86_64
> > > qemu-kvm-ev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.4.1.x86_64
> > >
> > > It seems I am not the only one experiencing this problem:
> > > http://seifesrants.blogspot.com/2016/07/ghost-keystrokes-with-libvirt-kvm-spice.html
> > >
> > >
> > > Any suggestion?
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > Hi all, anyone with some clue on what it is happening here?
> > Thanks.
> >
>
> Hi all,
> nobody has similar problems with the Spice display?

This doesn't really sound like a libvirt issue, CCing spice list for
investigation.

Erik