Re: [Qemu-devel] Keyboard problem in qemu 0.6.0-2

[Bochnig, Martin]

Kim Adil wrote:
> I seem to have a default keymap to the french keyboard layout. I thought 
> it must be defined in the guest os images that I downloaded, however, I 
> tried booting a windows XP setup disk and the same key layout was 
> experienced. Is there a way to alter this?

Hi,

I have similar problems with a Solaris10_x86 host running QEMU 0.6.0 
when displaying to the default Xsun X-Server at ':0.0' or forwarding to 
my SPARC machines running several Solaris versions.

These problems make QEMU (any Guest OS's command line, any input fields) 
completely unusable.

Almost exactly the same DISmapping appeared, when running the prebuilt 
0.6.0 LinUX binary on the JDS1_Live Demo CD (while the mapping itself 
was different).
Since no one else complained about it, my HOST and my machines 
displaying QEMU's window over the network appeared to be the cause.

Both the physical Keyboards itself (different vendors, different 
interfaces [ps/2 and usb]) as well as all guest and host OS's use 
US-English / POSIX C 7bit as default locale.

I had the same problem at University when running 0.6.0 on a Debian 
system installed in 2001.

On most of these systems
"qwertyui"
 is interpreted by the guest as
"rp6tu]i0".
Many keys do nothing at all. Others give strange control seqences with 
their ascii hex id printed to the guest console.

I posted to the ml around a week ago but didn't get reports of others 
confirming my experiences.
Am I the only one worldwide (your problem description still sounds quite 
moderate, as your keys are still in a usual sequential order - just 
shifted by a few keys) ?

WORKAROUND: First ensure that you have installed the very latest SDL 
release (unfortunately doing so didn't solve above problems in any way - 
however).
***The solution was to upgrade the HOST to the latest XFree86 4.x (that 
is to replace Xsun)***
***Alternatively it may help to use VNC4.x (which actually uses/includes 
a minimal - XFree86 4.x server)***.
So the misbehavior seems to be Host-X11_Server dependent.
The key mappings between SDL<<--->>X11 seem to be the root of these errors.
A bug in qemu, as it doesn's support forwarding to proprietary or even 
free X11 servers, when too old.
(maybe an XFree86_4.x--only specific option not supported by anything else?)

Another alternative is: Go to http://www.dad-answers.com/qemu , download 
the NOsdl-patch, copy 'nosdl.c' over 'sdl.c' , type
"make distclean;./configure;make" then switch user to root and do a make 
install.

Worked for me.


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Martin