Re: [orca-list] Passing keys to guest in virt-manager

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hello Vsevolod

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Cheers,
Didier

Le 07/01/2022 à 23:21, Vsevolod Popov via orca-list a écrit :
> Hello.
> Today I installed Qemu and later virt-manager. Initially I wanted to try out
> qemu without using a virt-manager to test it in console, but I got a thing that
> I couldn't really understand. I couldn't get if a virtual machine was really
> running or not, so I decided to try virt-manager out first.
> I finally could configure everything including network in libvirt and create a
> VM in virt-manager, it even says that it launches, but one thing I cannot
> understand is how can I pass keys to guest system?
> I try to install fedora 34 as a test and when I press alt+f2, the run dialog
> appears on my arch system but not in guest.
> I had the same experience with qemu launched from console, I had an empty window
> and I didn't know if the machine was running or not, I tried to press alt+f2 but
> I couldn't achieve that the key pressing would be passed to guest.
> Maybe I understood something wrong, how should it work?
> Is there any key to start/stop capturing keyboard input for qemu/virt-manager
> like in VirtualBox or VMWare?
> Thank you for any help!