No keyboard input in OSX guest

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CorporalPig22
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No keyboard input in OSX guest

Post by CorporalPig22 »

I'm trying to rename the hard drive in my Mac OS X guest, but when I try to type the name, QEMU doesn't take the keyboard input at all.

Config:

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qemu-system-ppc.exe ^
-L pc-bios ^
-cpu G4 ^
-M mac99 ^
-m 512 ^
--drive file=macosx100.img,format=qcow2,index=0,media=disk ^
-drive file=macosx100.toast,format=raw,index=2,media=cdrom ^
-boot d ^
-g 800x600x32 ^
-device usb-kbd ^
-device usb-mouse ^
-rtc base=localtime ^
-display sdl
I'm using the latest screamer build on Windows.
mcayland
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Re: No keyboard input in OSX guest

Post by mcayland »

CorporalPig22 wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 8:04 am I'm trying to rename the hard drive in my Mac OS X guest, but when I try to type the name, QEMU doesn't take the keyboard input at all.

Config:

Code: Select all

qemu-system-ppc.exe ^
-L pc-bios ^
-cpu G4 ^
-M mac99 ^
-m 512 ^
--drive file=macosx100.img,format=qcow2,index=0,media=disk ^
-drive file=macosx100.toast,format=raw,index=2,media=cdrom ^
-boot d ^
-g 800x600x32 ^
-device usb-kbd ^
-device usb-mouse ^
-rtc base=localtime ^
-display sdl
I'm using the latest screamer build on Windows.
The QEMU mac99 machine already has a USB keyboard and mouse added, so what you're doing here is adding an extra keyboard and mouse to the machine which is likely where the confusion lies. Can you try without the USB devices i.e.

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qemu-system-ppc.exe ^
-L pc-bios ^
-cpu G4 ^
-M mac99 ^
-m 512 ^
--drive file=macosx100.img,format=qcow2,index=0,media=disk ^
-drive file=macosx100.toast,format=raw,index=2,media=cdrom ^
-boot d ^
-g 800x600x32 ^
-rtc base=localtime ^
-display sdl
Can you also provide a link to the documentation that you used to generate these command lines so we can ping the author to get them updated? This has been the case for a few years now...
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CorporalPig22
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Re: No keyboard input in OSX guest

Post by CorporalPig22 »

mcayland wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 8:46 am
CorporalPig22 wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 8:04 am I'm trying to rename the hard drive in my Mac OS X guest, but when I try to type the name, QEMU doesn't take the keyboard input at all.

Config:

Code: Select all

qemu-system-ppc.exe ^
-L pc-bios ^
-cpu G4 ^
-M mac99 ^
-m 512 ^
--drive file=macosx100.img,format=qcow2,index=0,media=disk ^
-drive file=macosx100.toast,format=raw,index=2,media=cdrom ^
-boot d ^
-g 800x600x32 ^
-device usb-kbd ^
-device usb-mouse ^
-rtc base=localtime ^
-display sdl
I'm using the latest screamer build on Windows.
The QEMU mac99 machine already has a USB keyboard and mouse added, so what you're doing here is adding an extra keyboard and mouse to the machine which is likely where the confusion lies. Can you try without the USB devices i.e.

Code: Select all

qemu-system-ppc.exe ^
-L pc-bios ^
-cpu G4 ^
-M mac99 ^
-m 512 ^
--drive file=macosx100.img,format=qcow2,index=0,media=disk ^
-drive file=macosx100.toast,format=raw,index=2,media=cdrom ^
-boot d ^
-g 800x600x32 ^
-rtc base=localtime ^
-display sdl
Can you also provide a link to the documentation that you used to generate these command lines so we can ping the author to get them updated? This has been the case for a few years now...
I mainly based my command lines on the ones provided in the wiki guide. Also, what you said pretty much fixed my problem. Thanks!
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