By default virt-manager will *not* enable the '-k en-us' argument, because that forces use of a specific keyboard layout in QEMU's VNC server. For that to work, the VNC client keymap must exactly match the QEMU VNC server keymap, and must also exactly match the guest OS keymap.
Instead virt-manager leaves off the "-k en-us" argument, which will cause the VNC servers raw scancode extension to be activated with compatible clients. Virt-manager uses GTK-VNC which activates this extension, and so passes raw XT scancodes from virt-manager to QEMU to the guest OS, which generally makes everything "just work" IOW, if virt-manager works correctly, but tigerVNC does not work correctly, this probably means that tigervnc is not activating the raw scancode extension. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1738283 Title: 'Less than' (<), 'more than' (>), and 'pipe' (|) can't be typed via VNC Status in QEMU: New Bug description: If I start QEMU 2.11 (from https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/qemu) VM with VNC, I am unable to type following three characters: 'less than' (<), 'more than' (>), and 'pipe' (|) on en_US QWERTY keyboard. Other characters work fine. QEMu version 2.10.1 worked fine. /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -m 2048 -cpu kvm64 -drive media=cdrom,if=none,id=cd0,format=raw,file=OI-hipster- minimal-20171031.iso -device ide-cd,drive=cd0 -boot once=d,menu=on ,splash-time=5000 -device usb-ehci -device usb-tablet -smp 1 -enable- kvm -vnc :91,share=force-shared The ISO can be downloaded here: https://www.openindiana.org/download/ Also tried Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-25-1.3.iso and it's the same situation. If I run the same command without '-vnc :91,share=force-shared', everything works just fine. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1738283/+subscriptions
