Aha. This looks like my bug! I'm running into this in what I suspect is the same situation as Michal Nowak: openQA. But in Fedora. openQA (well, its test runner, os- autoinst) works by running virtual machines and interacting with them over VNC. It seems that with qemu 2.11, typing certain characters doesn't work right, where it worked fine with 2.10. The case I ran into is the < case: when os-autoinst intends to type a < (which it does by sending the keysym for shift and then the keysym 60, for <), it winds up typing a > . This winds up causing os-autoinst's test suite to fail when attempting to build the package on Fedora Rawhide. The test suite passes on Fedora 27 (qemu 2.10).
The qemu command in my test is: /usr/bin/qemu-system-i386 -serial file:serial0 -soundhw ac97 -vga cirrus -m 1024 -netdev user,id=qanet0 -device virtio- net,netdev=qanet0,mac=52:54:00:12:34:56 -device ide- drive,drive=hd1,serial=1 -drive file=raid/l1,cache=unsafe,if=none,id=hd1,format=qcow2 -drive media=cdrom,if=none,id=cd0,format=raw,file=/builddir/build/BUILD/os- autoinst-25191d50d54eaded10b6b26199bb986728dcd5c2/t/data//Core-7.2.iso -device ide-cd,drive=cd0 -boot once=d,menu=on,splash-time=5000 -smp 1 -no-shutdown -vnc :90,share=force-shared -qmp unix:qmp_socket,server,nowait -monitor unix:hmp_socket,server,nowait -S -monitor telnet:127.0.0.1:15222,server,nowait note there doesn't appear to be any explicit keyboard map setting there. -- 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
