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

[John Covici <covici ccs covici com>]

I have a couple of questions about this:

How did you bridge your virtual machine to your network?

What did you use for disk storage?  I have been having problems with
those two aspects of getting a vm to work.

On Fri, 07 Jan 2022 17:21:50 -0500,
Vsevolod Popov via orca-list wrote:
> 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!
> -- 
> regards,
> Vsevolod
> https://github.com/sevapopov2/
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