qemu-kvm: qns regarding network and usb keyboard setup

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 08:18 -0800, suvayu ali wrote:
> 2009/2/21 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>:
> > On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 07:21 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >> suvayu ali wrote:
> >> > However my arrow keys still don't work as it usually does on regular
> >> > consoles. I tried using it in the QEMU monitor, and it worked there.
> >> > So I tried this, "sendkey up" this _did_ send the up arrow signal to
> >> > the terminal I had opened in the GUI. So do I have to do this every
> >> > time? Are there other ways to set it up to make it work the way I want
> >> > to?
> >>
> >> Your keyboard is not set up correctly for the new "evdev" driver. What
> >> desktop environment are you using? If it's KDE, go to System Settings,
> >> Keyboard & Mouse and make sure the keyboard type is set to "Evdev-managed
> >> keyboard".
> >
> > Although my kb seems to be working fine, I had a look and I don't see
> > anything allowing me to set the kb type. There's stuff about kb repeat,
> > numlock, click volume etc. and that's it. Should I be worried? This is
> > KDE 4.2.
> >
> On Gnome the keyboard type is chosen in
> System>>Preferences>>Hardware>>Keyboard under the tab Layout (along
> with the stuff you mention). So maybe you can look for something
> similar? In a thread recently someone mentioned KDE had some setting
> under Language Settings, whereas intuitively it should be under
> Keyboard settings. So maybe you can look for it there?

I was following what Kevin said, and he should know.

poc