With a freshly compiled version of qemu 4.0.50 on Widows 10 (host) I am using 3 different Belgian keyboards and I have the same behaviour - 2 USB keyboards (Logitech and HP) and - the keyboard of my laptop (HP)
3 characters on the same key cannot be used (the key seams to be dead): < (less than), > (greater than) used with the combination of LShift or RShift \ (backslash) used with the combination of AltGr Using grub command mode from an archlinux installation (5.1.4) The keyboard seams to be a mix of azerty and qwerty keyboard all letters are correctly mapped but all numbers and special characters are not Using sendkey in monitor "sendkey <" results in : \ "sendkey shift-<" results in : | "sendkey ctrl-alt-<" results in : nothing REM: VirtualBox can handle this key and with the showkey command from the archlinux kbd package, it shows : keycode 86 press keycode 86 release -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1101210 Title: qemu 1.4.2: usb keyboard not fully working Status in QEMU: New Bug description: When using the usb keyboard, I can't type the | character. I'm using german keyboard layout (de) on the host and inside the guest. As a guest OS, I use Linux (e.g. a recent KNOPPIX cd). To obtain the | character on a german keyboard, I need to press AltGr + the < or > key, i.e. the key right to the left shift. The qemu command line is something like this: ./qemu-system-i386 -device pci-ohci -device usb-kbd I also tried ./qemu-system-i386 -usb -usbdevice keyboard with the same effect. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1101210/+subscriptions