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Bug 1100101

Summary: qemu-kvm can not execute "sendkey ctrl-alt-delete" after seabios give info "No bootable device."
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Jun Li <juli>
Component: seabiosAssignee: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Priority: low    
Version: 6.6CC: juzhang, michen, qiguo, qzhang, sluo, virt-maint, xfu
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Last Closed: 2014-07-02 07:54:24 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Jun Li 2014-05-22 03:02:12 UTC
Description of problem:
boot qemu-kvm with two usb-kbd. When seabios show "No bootable device", qemu-kvm can not respond  "sendkey ctrl-alt-delete". 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
seabios-0.6.1.2-28.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.425.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot qemu-kvm as following cli:
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -m 2G -cpu host -smp 2 -monitor stdio -spice port=5931,disable-ticketing -boot menu=on -qmp tcp::8888,server,nowait \
-device ich9-usb-uhci3,id=uhci0 \
-device usb-kbd,id=1 \
-device usb-kbd,id=2
2.execute "sendkey ctrl-alt-delete" via hmp when seabios give info "No bootable device."
(qemu) sendkey ctrl-alt-delete
3.

Actual results:
qemu-kvm can not respond  "sendkey ctrl-alt-delete".

Expected results:
qemu-kvm can respond  "sendkey ctrl-alt-delete" successfully.

Additional info:

Comment 2 Jun Li 2014-05-22 03:30:19 UTC
Additional info:
after step2, qemu-kvm will print following warning:
(qemu) sendkey ctrl-alt-delete
usb-kbd: warning: key event queue full
usb-kbd: warning: key event queue full
usb-kbd: warning: key event queue full
usb-kbd: warning: key event queue full
(qemu) usb-kbd: warning: key event queue full
usb-kbd: warning: key event queue full
usb-kbd: warning: key event queue full
usb-kbd: warning: key event queue full
-------
Note: 
system_reset can work well.
when execute "system_reset", qemu-kvm will reboot.

Comment 4 Gerd Hoffmann 2014-07-02 07:54:24 UTC
Only happens with *two* usb keyboards attached, a single kbd works fine.
Not worth fixing in rhel6 IMO.