USB Keyboard init delay?

[JustSomeGeek]

Hi,
This isn't specific to ProxMox, as I had the same issue using KVM on Arch too.

If I assign a physical USB keyboard to a VM, there seems to be a long delay before it is actually usable by the VM.

Whether I pass it through as a USB device, or if I pass through a dedicated PCIe USB card with the KB connected to it, makes no difference.

It means I can't access the OVMF config or any OS boot menu, until after the timeout passes, and it's too late.

Googling is difficult due to KVM being called the same as the "old" physical KVM switch.

 

[datschlatscher]

Unfortunately, I do not know the answer to your problem and couldn't find anything through a quick search, however:

Googling is difficult due to KVM being called the same as the "old" physical KVM switch.

Google dorking could help you out here. You can use certain annotations in your search to filter results and narrow down what you are looking for.
E.g. the search kvm keyboard delay -hardware filters results to not include discussions about (KVM switch) hardware. You could also try to filter out results related to switches -switch or only include results for a certain site, e.g. site:lists.gnu.org will only show results for a certain site.