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

[Gionatan Danti]

On 30/10/2018 15:01, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
> 
> Hi,
>    I had a quick test with a Windows 7 and a Windows 8.1 with check disk
> scheduled with a classic "chkdsk c: /f" command. With both client connected
> and not connected (shutdown and start without SPICE client) and in all 4
> cases check disk was run. Which Windows versions did you try?
> I was using a Fedora 28 setup so surely the server part is different but
> spice-server is still 0.14.0 and code for input was not changed so much.
> Can you try with and without client connected too?
> 
> Frediano

Hi Frediano, it really seems related to the NumLock state, because:

- with client NumLock enabled and spice connected, chkdsk is skipped;
- with client NumLock enabled but spice not connected, chkdsk is not 
skipped;
- with client NumLock not enabled, chkdsk is not skipped.

This behavior is consistent between two CentOS 7 hosts and 
Win2003/Win10/Win2016 as guests. I am using the spice client integrated 
within virt-manager.

Any suggestion on how to avoid it (short that not using/connecting the 
Spice client)?

Thanks.

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