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

[Gionatan Danti]

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.

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