After finishing some Windows guest setups, I've now discovered thet vinagre's "send ctl-alt-delete" button doesn't work either. I'm installing the old VNC package now, hoping it's better... On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Michael Jinks<michael.jinks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not sure if I'm having VNC trouble, or KVM trouble. > > I'm using vinagre as my VNC client, connecting to localhost. Usually > I use TightVNC but Avi says it's broken, and it sure won't attach to a > QEMU server. > > Both work fine if I connect to one of my own VNC servers (Linux). > > Against a KVM console, mouse movement is erratic. My console captures > the mouse, so I can't move it out of the window, but the far-side > pointer will freeze as though it's hitting the edge of a screen > (possibly because the near-side pointer actually is hitting the edge > of my vinagre window). Sometimes by releasing the mouse and > recapturing, I can dance it around to the right part of the screen, > and sometimes not. > > My arrow keys work sometimes. For instance, during the setup of a > Solaris 10 guest, they work up to the point where I'm asked to choose > the file system type, and then they stop. I was able to use the tab > key in some cases, but only to tab forward -- "shift-tab" doesn't > index backward, and if the OS installer doesn't happen to roll past > the end to the beginning of a list of fields, I'm stuck. > > Now I'm trying to install a Windows guest, and the arrow keys don't > work at all. tab and shift-tab both work as expected, but in cases > where the arrow keys are needed, like choosing the time zone, I'm > sunk. > > Any idea what might be going on here? Some other VNC client that > might work better, or a setting I can change somewhere? > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
