no keyboard in VM vnc console?

[alauppe]

I have proxmox running on an intel core 2 duo machine, and am trying to install Ubuntu Jeos in KVM/QEMU. The VM boots off the ISO just fine, and I was even able to navigate through the installer. After a completed install, I rebooted without the CD but when I load up the console via the vnc viewer, entries to from my keyboard with focus on the vnc console don't seem to go anywhere. In fact, the screen saver comes up on the installer eventually and I can't get out of it (for obvious reasons...)

I've even tried

nc -l -p 5900 -c "qm vncproxy 101 password"

and connected with a diffrerent VNC client, but the behavior is the same.

Thoughts?

 

[mangoo]

I have proxmox running on an intel core 2 duo machine, and am trying to install Ubuntu Jeos in KVM/QEMU. The VM boots off the ISO just fine, and I was even able to navigate through the installer. After a completed install, I rebooted without the CD but when I load up the console via the vnc viewer, entries to from my keyboard with focus on the vnc console don't seem to go anywhere. In fact, the screen saver comes up on the installer eventually and I can't get out of it (for obvious reasons...)

I've even tried

nc -l -p 5900 -c "qm vncproxy 101 password"

and connected with a diffrerent VNC client, but the behavior is the same.

Thoughts?

I'm seeing this sometimes, too.

I.e. keyboard works in "BIOS" bootup and in the bootloader (i.e. GRUB), but after Linux guest boots, no keypresses work in VNC console. Sending ctrl+alt+del doesn't work as well.
What helps, is stopping and starting the guest.
I've no idea how to trigger it reliably.

 

[alauppe]

So this is weird - I can't use the local keyboard on the host either. This has to be a known bug on some level, no?

 

[kelargo]

happens to me every once in a while, too.. seems to go away after removing and rebuilding the VM. and being very careful not to enter any erroneous key strokes during the VM install/build off iso.