[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1101210] Re: qemu 1.4.2: usb keyboard not fully working

[Roland Christmann]

With a freshly compiled version of qemu 4.0.50
on Widows 10 (host)

I am using 3 different Belgian keyboards and I have the same behaviour
- 2 USB keyboards (Logitech and HP) and
- the keyboard of my laptop (HP)

3 characters on the same key cannot be used (the key seams to be dead):
< (less than),
> (greater than) used with the combination of LShift or RShift
\ (backslash) used with the combination of AltGr

Using grub command mode from an archlinux installation (5.1.4)
The keyboard seams to be a mix of azerty and qwerty keyboard
all letters are correctly mapped but all numbers and special
characters are not

Using sendkey in monitor
"sendkey <" results in : \
"sendkey shift-<" results in : |
"sendkey ctrl-alt-<" results in : nothing

REM: VirtualBox can handle this key and with the showkey command
     from the archlinux kbd package, it shows :
     keycode  86 press
     keycode  86 release

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Title:
  qemu 1.4.2: usb keyboard not fully working

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  When using the usb keyboard, I can't type the | character. I'm using
  german keyboard layout (de) on the host and inside the guest. As a
  guest OS, I use Linux (e.g. a recent KNOPPIX cd). To obtain the |
  character on a german keyboard, I need to press AltGr + the < or >
  key, i.e. the key right to the left shift.

  The qemu command line is something like this:
  ./qemu-system-i386 -device pci-ohci -device usb-kbd
  I also tried
  ./qemu-system-i386 -usb -usbdevice keyboard
  with the same effect.

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