Description of problem: System appears not to "pass" Alt-Ctl-Del to the kvm VM. When I run "qemu-kvm -m 400 image", image boots, and I get the WinXP "enter Alt-Ctl-Del to start login" window. But, I see no cursor displayed (unless I move the cursor, and then only for a second or so), and when I enter Alt-Ctl-Del, it appears to behave as if I had entered "Alt-Ctl" (that is, the window loses the grab. If I run this in full screen mode, still nothing happens when I enter Alt-Ctl-Del. Reverting to kvm-60-2.fc9.i386.rpm does not fix. Nor does putting SELinux into permissive mode. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kvm-61-2.fc9.i386 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
The X server grabs the Ctrl-Alt-Del keysequence before any application ever gets a chance to see it. So its impossible to enter it, unless you use xmodmap to completely remove X's grabbing of this key sequence. The other alternative is to use "Ctrl-Alt-2' to switch to QEMU's admin console and use its 'send_key' command. The further alternative is to start QEMU using virt-manager which has a menu option for sending C-A-D - similarly virt-viewer provides this.
OK. This just stopped working sometime near the end of last week so I thought "something changed". There were a lot of X changes, perhaps one of them "broke" this.
I think this needs to be reopened. qemu-kvm does not display the cursor now too. So even after using the suggested Ctrl-Alt-2 method to send the key, I can login, but no cursor is display except momentarily on mouse movement. Since this is likely not a kvm issue (assuming X), a pointer here so I could file a BZ properly would be appreciated!