[virt-tools-list] Keyboard autorepeat issue

Tadas tadas at ring.lt
Wed Nov 25 06:25:44 UTC 2015


Hello,
okay, will try to investigate further. We can see, that the problem
exists with Win7 on Debian 8 and Centos 7.

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On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 11:07 +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 09:23:59AM +0200, Tadas wrote:
> > Hello lists,
> > 
> > we have an interesting issue, while using spice and remote-viewer on a
> > Windows 7 guests.
> > 
> > The problem is that some of keys are not generating autorepeat while
> > holding them pressed down. Currently we are having issues with "del" and
> > "left", "right" keys. All other keys seem to work fine. Packages used:
> > 
> > 
> > qemu-kvm                         1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u1
> > libvirt-bin                      1.2.9-9+deb8u1      
> > 
> > remote-viewer - tried 1.00 and 2.00
> > spice-guest tools - tried 0.100 and 0.74 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Strangely enough this autorepeat problem disappears if I add USB
> > keyboard next to default PS/2 one. This will cause another problem
> > though - you are not able to shutdown guest while pressing power off
> > button on client PC.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Maybe you have any idea, where we should look in?
> 
> I haven't been able to reproduce this problem on a win7 VM with fedora
> 23 client/host, and f23 client/rhel6 host, I don't know exactly which
> component differenc could cause this :(
> 
> Christophe




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