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Re: [Qemu-devel] Support for VNC LED state extension proposal
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Anthony Liguori |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Support for VNC LED state extension proposal |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:41:37 -0500 |
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Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi,
>
>> When access a guest by console through VNC, there might be
>> mismatch between the lock keys notification LED on the computer
>> running the VNC client session and the current status of the lock
>> keys on the guest machine. This happens because the VNC protocol
>> does not have any support to deal with setting led state.
>
> What is the exact issue you are trying to fix here?
>
> The vnc server code in qemu already tracks the keyboard led state and
> will insert synthetic key events if needed to make sure vnc client and
> guest machine stay in sync.
If the guest changes LED state, we want to the client to update the
physical keyboard LED state.
Think thin client without an X server.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> cheers,
> Gerd