[Spice-devel] Hotkeys are disable when use spice-usbredir-redirect-on-connect option

[Uri Lublin]

On 03/02/2016 03:00 PM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 01:54:48PM +0330, Hamid Mazrae Mollaie wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Tank you for replay.
>> yes, my mouse and keyboard are usb and redirect to vm... and all pressed
>> key sent to vm
>> all hotkeys and Ctrl+Alt+F[n] does not work for example. but if i avoid
>> from spice-usbredir-redirect-on-connect option, all hotkeys work perfect.
>> my question is how can i avoid from redirect mouse and keyboard always and
>> dynamically but i can use spice-usbredir-redirect-on-connect option for
>> other usb hardware?
>
> I think you can tweak the filter you use with
> --spice-usbredir-redirect-on-connect to exclude your USB keyboard/mouse
> spice-gtk documentation says
>
>      /**
>       * The default setting filters out HID (class 0x03) USB devices from auto
>       * connect and auto connects anything else. Note the explicit allow rule at
>       * the end, this is necessary since by default all devices without a
>       * matching filter rule will not auto-connect.
>       */
>
> and this default setting is "0x03,-1,-1,-1,0|-1,-1,-1,-1,1"
>
> So I would try --spice-usbredir-redirect-on-connect="0x03,-1,-1,-1,0|-1,-1,-1,-1,1"

Or specify the specific device you want the guest to access and use
a rule to allow this specific device (or class) and reject all
other devices, such as:

-1,VID,PID,-1,1|-1,-1,-1,-1,0

Uri