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Description of problem:

Many Eastern European keyboards use characters such as idotless and Cyrillic_A.  Because these keys aren't listed in vnc_keysym.h, they do not get passed through to the VM by qemu-kvm.  This in turn means that it is impossible to use these keys and keyboards with virtualisation on RHEL.


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

qemu-kvm-1.5.3-126.el7_3.10.x86_64


How reproducible:

100% reproducible when using an affected keymap.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set your system keyboard to Turkish
2. Start a VM, making sure you use the "-k tr" option to select the Turkish keyboard
3. Using VNC, connect to the VM and press the idotless key (keycode 0x17, same as a normal i on a US keyboard).


Actual results:

No key is sent to the VM even though idotless is correctly mapped in /usr/sahre/qemu-kvm/keymaps/tr.


Expected results:

Depending on the VM's keymap, you should see an 'i' (US or similar), a dotless i (Turkish) or whatever character maps to keycode 0x17 on that keymap.

Additional info:

It would probably be sufficient to simply use the latest version of ui/vnc_keysym.h from upstream.

Fix included in qemu-kvm-1.5.3-145.el7

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0816