Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 01:11:05PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Hello, I recently upgraded my Xen server from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 and
> am no longer able to type a | over vnc to the xen vms.  When I press \
> it works, but when I hold down shift and press \ which should generate a
> |, the vm sees the scan code for some key that the keymap thinks should
> sit between left shift and Z, but does not exist on US keyboards, and
> that scan code produces a > when combined with shift.  I'm betting it
> was this commit that broke it:
> 
> commit ab8f9d49d62c82a12409475547e4420a46da56ed
> Author: Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden>
> Date:   Wed Jan 17 16:41:15 2018 +0000
> 
>     hw: convert ps2 device to keycodemapdb
> 
>     Replace the qcode_to_keycode_set1, qcode_to_keycode_set2,
>     and qcode_to_keycode_set3 tables with automatically
>     generated tables.
> 
> Any ideas?

Ubuntu 18.04 apparently has QEMU 2.11.0:

   https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/bionic/qemu

The commit you mention above is from the 2.12.0 release, so that can't
be the cause.  Ubuntu 16.04 was on QEMU 2.5.0, so that's a huge  range
of possible changes.

My suggestion would be to try with the very latest QEMU 3.0.0 to see
if that fixes the problem first.

Regards,
Daniel
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