Bug 1284330 - Keyboard drops out all the time, VM barely usable
Summary: Keyboard drops out all the time, VM barely usable
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-boxes
Version: 24
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Christophe Fergeau
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-11-23 03:50 UTC by ell1e
Modified: 2017-08-08 12:27 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-08-08 12:27:14 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description ell1e 2015-11-23 03:50:31 UTC
Description of problem:
I am just trying to use a Windows 10 guest in gnome boxes, but the keyboard keeps going dead ALL THE TIME. Keypresses just stop doing anything, and then after a minute or two all the piled up keypresses spam into the guest. Obviously, it's barely possible to navigate the guest in a useful way with this going on.

dmesg output which looks relevant:
[214773.440215] kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation wraparound
[214783.886001] kvm [12119]: vcpu2 unhandled rdmsr: 0x641
[215380.386353] kvm [12119]: vcpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0x641
[219823.460666] virbr0: port 2(tap0) entered disabled state
[219823.462730] device tap0 left promiscuous mode
[219823.462747] virbr0: port 2(tap0) entered disabled state
[219828.973166] device tap0 entered promiscuous mode
[219828.975596] virbr0: port 2(tap0) entered listening state
[219828.975610] virbr0: port 2(tap0) entered listening state
[219830.257158] kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation wraparound
[219830.982377] virbr0: port 2(tap0) entered learning state
[219832.986688] virbr0: topology change detected, propagating
[219832.986696] virbr0: port 2(tap0) entered forwarding state
[219845.881587] kvm [28443]: vcpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0x641
[220294.395180] kvm [28443]: vcpu2 unhandled rdmsr: 0x641
[223398.338861] virbr0: port 2(tap0) entered disabled state
[223398.342011] device tap0 left promiscuous mode
[223398.342033] virbr0: port 2(tap0) entered disabled state
[223405.384781] device tap0 entered promiscuous mode
[223405.385008] virbr0: port 2(tap0) entered listening state
[223405.385018] virbr0: port 2(tap0) entered listening state
[223407.390436] virbr0: port 2(tap0) entered learning state
[223409.394743] virbr0: topology change detected, propagating
[223409.394755] virbr0: port 2(tap0) entered forwarding state

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
3.16.2

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install & launch Windows 10 VM in gnome boxes
2. Use it for a while. Make sure to search for things in the task bar search thing quite often to give it something to do - CPU load seems to be vaguely relevant

Actual results:
Keyboard periodically stops working

Expected results:
Keyboard keeps working

Additional info:

Comment 1 Christophe Fergeau 2015-11-23 10:43:19 UTC
Is it helping if you remove the USB keyboard?
From a terminal,
virsh list --all
(find the name of your win10 VM)
virsh edit $win10-vm
Remove the line reading <input type='keyboard' bus='usb'/>
Then try shutting down the VM, and restarting it.

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 19:22:42 UTC
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
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Comment 3 ell1e 2016-08-15 17:44:38 UTC
I just saw this happening again after a long time on Fedora 24 :-/
I will try the suggested workaround, although just for what it's worth: there is no external USB keyboard attached since it's a laptop.

Comment 4 ell1e 2016-08-15 17:53:33 UTC
Sadly I still don't know how to reproduce it willingly. That I haven't seen it for half a year is both a mix of that, and that I used another pc predominantly where I currently use Virtualbox for virtualization for unrelated reasons.

However, I removed the usb keyboard for now. I'll try to use this computer and gnome-boxes more often so I can give a better feedback on whether it changes anything.

Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2017-07-25 19:33:04 UTC
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Comment 6 Fedora End Of Life 2017-08-08 12:27:14 UTC
Fedora 24 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2017-08-08. Fedora 24 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this
bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.


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