Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1004050] [NEW] qemu-system-ppc64 by default has non-working keyboard

[Andreas Färber]

Am 24.05.2012 18:51, schrieb Richard W.M. Jones:
> Compile qemu from git and do:
> 
>   ./ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64
> 
> (ie. no parameters).  It boots to an OpenBIOS prompt.  However the
> keyboard doesn't work.  After ~10 keypresses, qemu just says:
> 
> 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
> 
> There is no indication inside the guest that OpenBIOS is seeing keyboard
> events.
> 
> Also there's no indication of what type of keyboard devices are
> available, nor what we should use.

OpenBIOS/ppc only supports ADB keyboards at this time. ppc64 kernels
don't support ADB though, so -M mac99 has a USB keyboard. -nographic
should work, and so does -M pseries (using SLOF).

Andreas

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