Ubuntu
kvm package

  1. Bug #372938
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 372938

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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote :

I'm testing a bootable USB key with

    udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sdb1
    sudo setfacl -m user:$USER:rw /dev/sdb
    kvm -drive format=raw,file=/dev/sdb -m 2048

and I get the GRUB menu in the KVM window just fine, but arrow keys do not work (and I have to use Ctrl+N/Ctrl+P to select the GRUB menu entry).

Once Linux boots (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server livecd, with a text mode ubiquity) arrow keys continue not working.

FWIW I get one message on the console about

    unknown keycodes `(unnamed)', please report to <email address hidden>

during kvm startup.

I've also booted the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS desktop livecd and ran xev to take a look. Up arrow sends some key event that's intercepted by the (virtual) OS, so all I see is a FocusOut event. Down arrow sends no event. Left arrow sends Alt_R, right arrow sends Pause. (Right Alt sends KP_Enter. Fun!)

It looks like there exists a workaround: if I explicitly run kvm -k en-us, things work fine. The manual page claims en-us should already be default?

My host OS is Ubuntu 17.10, and I'm using a Wayland session.