[SOLVED] copy paste keys commands for ct kvm vnc console

[Mr.Gosh]

I wanted to ask if there is any work going on for copy paste keys support in the vnc viewer? At least software buttons in the top header would be very helpful for long passwords on machines where networking doesn't work . or bios stuff!

Found this old Question regarding the same question:

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/copy-paste-keys-commands-for-ct-kvm-vnc-console.7918/

 

[LnxBil]

You cannot paste into a terminal directly without installing some os tweaks for the KVM part. This doesn't work in windows either - without os tools, no integration.

 

[Mr.Gosh]

so there is no possibility to paste "keyboard inputs" - especially regarding the pre-boot luks decryption time?

 

[LnxBil]

You can use the monitor command sendkey for this, but normally you'd ssh into the initrd and decrypt from there. You need a special prepared initrd for this, yet it is possible.

 

[Mr.Gosh]

thanks for that hint - but how to send an "=" this doesn't work out here - other simple keys like "1" work very well...

 

[LnxBil]

Most of the "special" keys has to be used with a name: equal

Please refer to this:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Monitor#sendkey_keys

 

[Mr.Gosh]

thanks for the hints - we got around the "not able to use "="" problem by switching the keyboard AND using spice as the vnc viewer....

 

[LnxBil]

Yes, SPICE is much more powerful and hopefully, there could/will be a html5/js-based client for that.