Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF, Q35 and USB keyboard/mouse

[Gabriel L. Somlo]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 05:49:08PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 11/09/2014 17:42, Gabriel L. Somlo ha scritto:
> > Building SeaBIOS w/o EHCI and UHCI won't allow me to type into
> > Chameleon's boot prompt at all (and yes, I do end up getting the
> > "usb-kbd: warning: key event queue full" errors after a few
> > keystrokes).
> 
> Can you configure Chamaleon to avoid the boot prompt?

Yes. After doing that, usb starts working once OS X is fully booted.

Works with either piix or q35 just fine.

Does this mean it's likely to be an OVMF uhci/ehci issue specific to Q35 ?
(one from which Fedora can recover but OS X can't) ? 

Thanks,
--Gabriel

> > So it *looks* similar, but happens everywhere (q35 or piix, fedora
> > or osx, etc.)
> > 
> > The problem I'm encountering only occurs with (Q35 & OVMF & OSX).
> > Replace either component, e.g. (* & * & Fedora), or (* & Seabios & *),
> > or (PIIX & * & *) and things work just fine... :)
>