Bug 654236

Summary:	'Send F8' is unavailable when installing a win2k3 or winxp guest
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Qunfang Zhang <qzhang>
Component:	kvm	Assignee:	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Priority:	high
Version:	5.6	CC:	mkenneth, virt-maint, ykaul
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Description Qunfang Zhang 2010-11-17 09:44:19 UTC

Description of problem:
When installing win2k3 or winxp guest, there's a stage need to Press F8 to agree and proceed. But after pressing F8, and select 'Send F8', there's no response to go ahead.
The only method to continue installing is input "sendkey f8" command in qemu monitor.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kvm-83-207.el5
kernel-2.6.18-229.el5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install a win2k3 or winxp guest.
CLI:
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -m 2G -smp 2 -cpu qemu64,+sse2 -drive file=win2k3-64-virtio-backup.raw,media=disk,if=virtio,boot=on,cache=none,werror=stop -net nic,model=virtio,vlan=0,macaddr=00:10:16:30:43:10 -net tap,vlan=0,script=/etc/qemu-ifup0  -uuid 9034a298-f04f-47eb-bda5-5219f9e7ed2d  -monitor stdio -vnc :1 -boot dc  -usbdevice tablet -no-hpet -rtc-td-hack -no-kvm-pit-reinjection -startdate now -fda /usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-drivers-1.0.0-45801.vfd -cdrom en_win_srv_2003_r2_enterprise_x64_with_sp2_cd1_X13-06188.iso  -name 43-win2k3-64

2.There's a stage requiring to Press F8 to agree and go ahead.
3.Press "F8" and select "Send F8"
  
Actual results:
No response after select "Send F8".

Expected results:
F8 can be select and could continue installing.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Gerd Hoffmann 2010-12-01 08:13:51 UTC

Can you retest with kvm-83-218.el5 please?

Comment 2 Qunfang Zhang 2010-12-01 09:04:07 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you retest with kvm-83-218.el5 please?

Re-test with kvm-83-219.el5 with the same steps in Comment 0, installing winxp, win2k3, and this issue does not exist.

Comment 3 Gerd Hoffmann 2010-12-01 11:38:33 UTC

Good.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 643317 ***