The following commit contains the patch that has been suggested in comment #1: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=33aa30cafcce053b83 ... so this issue should be fixed in recent versions of QEMU.
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/658152 Title: jp106 keyboard cannot input "_" key Status in QEMU: Fix Released Bug description: My environment are cpu model = AMD Phenom II X2 545 kvm version = Virtual Machine Manager 0.8.5 host kernel version = vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64 host kernel arch = x86_64 guest you are using = CentOS-5.5, slackware-13.1 qemu command = not use I do not use -no-kvm-irqchip or -no-kvm-pit switch or -no-kvm switch. Report I use jp106 keybord on host OS( Fedora Core 13), it work fine. but I could not keyin "_" key on GestOS( CentOS-5.5, Slackware-13.1). I change keybord but same result, so I reported a bug. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/658152/+subscriptions