[Spice-devel] Windows guest skipping chkdsk if using Spice display

[Frediano Ziglio]

> 
> Hi all,
> as per subject, when a Windows guest using a Spice display is rebooted
> with a planned chkdsk, the consistency check is always skipped.
> 
> It seems that the Spice display issues some "phantom" keystrokes, which
> are then intended by Windows as the "skip chkdsk at boot" signal.
> 
> I tried to use a Spice display with no additional features (ie: USB
> redirection), but to no avail. To workaround the problem I must use a
> VNC display, which is less featureful than the Spice one.
> 
> My system and package versions are:
> CentOS 7.5 x86-64
> spice-gtk3-0.34-3.el7_5.1.x86_64
> spice-server-0.14.0-2.el7_5.4.x86_64
> spice-glib-0.34-3.el7_5.1.x86_64
> libvirt-3.9.0-14.el7_5.7.x86_64
> qemu-kvm-ev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.4.1.x86_64
> 
> It seems I am not the only one experiencing this problem:
> http://seifesrants.blogspot.com/2016/07/ghost-keystrokes-with-libvirt-kvm-spice.html
> 
> Any suggestion?
> Thanks.
> 

Thanks for the report.
As far as I know we only (in specific cases) inject caps/num/scroll locks in order to sync them.
Does this happen if SPICE client is connected during the boot or also if not connected?

Ciao,
  Frediano