Re: [Qemu-devel] It told me to report this...

[Warner Losh]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 5:33 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden>
wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:29:36PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > * Warner Losh (address@hidden) wrote:
> > > unknown keycodes `empty+aliases(qwerty)', please report to
> > > address@hidden
> > >
> > > My X server is Mac XQuartz 2.7.11. I saw this question raised several
> years
> > > ago in the archives, with promises of patches, but couldn't find
> anything
> > > relevant in the latest tree I grabbed from github (I saw this problem
> there
> > > as well as 2.9.0 installed from FreeBSD ports).
> > >
> > > What's my next step here?
> >
> > I think that's one of Gerd's messages, so I've added him to the
> > email and also Daniel since he's got an interest in key mappings.
> >
> > Have you any idea if it happened when you pressed a particular key?
>
> Don't worry, this is a known limitation of the current X backend for QEMU.
>
> It only knows how to work with Xorg on Linux with kbd or evdev. It can't
> cope with OS-X or Windows  X11 servers yet. I've got patches that will
> address this which i hope to finally put into 2.12 as part of the
> keycodemapdb
> work.
>

I've built qemu many times over the years. I'd be happy to test them out to
make sure they work for me :). Also, a million years ago, I did extensive
work with X11 keymaps when I was working on the OI toolkit, so I have some
familiarity...


> In the meantime your best bet is to use the native OS-X cocoa frontend for
> QEMU, or VNC.
>

That's... awkward since it would mean copying the VM over to mac... VNC
might work though...

Warner