[Spice-devel] SPICE_INTERFACE_KEYBOARD - scancodes vs. utf8

[Dietmar Maurer]

> So you want to have a terminal emulator using spice-server directly? 

Yes. We have that for VNC, and it is quite convenient. For example, we can open
a login shell to the host, or run maintenance command requiring user input
like 'apt-get upgrade'. Or simply open a container console by running  'vzctl enter'.

> in that case
> maybe we need to extend the protocol. I guess converting scan codes to utf-8 is
> impossible, without additional information, which currently we rely on the guest
> to decide on. I'm not sure what happens with Xspice, it might benefit from this
> too. This would entail adding a capability to the inputs channel and a new
> message.