Re: [Qemu-devel] (savevm and loadvm) appropriate order of events

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Vesselin Peev wrote:
> 
> > Yes, it does, thanks. Saves a finger stretch and one hitting one more key
> > :).
> > Also, one could hit them in any order, and any number of keys between them.
> 
> Someone probably should wip together a patch to sent Ctrl and Alt keyup 
> events to the guest when using the magic hotkey combinations (and to not 
> send it immediately after switching back to the guest via the magic 
> hotkeys)... but to get around this you can run the monitor on stdio and 
> switch to it using your host window manager...

Ask, and it will be given you:

---

[PATCH] Release Alt & Ctrl when savevm'ing

This patch puts the keyup events for Alt&Ctrl into the keyboard queue
just before saving the state.

---

 hw/pckbd.c |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

applies-to: f81b679dc9d656021f798cfe0422399a46f6b12a
6d4f72c3ddcea23ba905a874de4d4a79da9c4ca3
diff --git a/hw/pckbd.c b/hw/pckbd.c
index 8ef462c..15b27ac 100644
--- a/hw/pckbd.c
+++ b/hw/pckbd.c
@@ -732,7 +732,11 @@ static void kbd_reset(void *opaque)
 static void kbd_save(QEMUFile* f, void* opaque)
 {
     KBDState *s = (KBDState*)opaque;
-    
+
+    /* release alt, ctrl */
+    kbd_put_keycode(0x38|0x80); /* alt */
+    kbd_put_keycode(0x1d|0x80); /* ctrl */
+
     qemu_put_8s(f, &s->write_cmd);
     qemu_put_8s(f, &s->status);
     qemu_put_8s(f, &s->mode);
---
0.99.8.GIT