Indeed the bug does not exist in this exact form any more, but it seems the stray '86' keymap entry *does* still cause problems in current qemu in one specific case:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1658676 basically, if using 'usb-kbd', we still get trouble when openQA (os- autoinst) tries to type a '<' character, because it does this: shift down comma down shift up comma up (note it does *not* do shift down, comma down, comma up, shift up), and qemu gets confused and converts that into this sequence of input_event_key_qcode events: shift down comma down shift up less up and that seems to mess with the key state and cause any subsequent attempts to type a '<' to go wrong. Removing the '86' key definition avoids the bug. ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #1658676 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1658676 -- 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: Fix Released 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
