Comment 1 for bug 1267520

I think I stumbled on this bug. I was using packer to generate qemu-based virtual machines, and identical configurations would fail (complaining about invalid keymaps when keystrokes were sent) depending on where the current directory was. It doesn't work if qemu is run from a directory containing a directory named "common".

Guessing this is related to qemu_find_file, maybe https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/31783203c3b74c11015b20194d57dada559940cf#diff-48a342a3d278d5bdcc69db8f9758dcd6 .