Hopefuly, it's ok to sum-it-up this way, as I was not able to find a post with complete summary on the topic - how to pass laptop's keyboard, touchpad and trackpoint into VM.
Some of inputs were taken from this post.
TLDR; for intel-based laptop, add to your /etc/pve/qemu-server/<VMID>.conf:
Steps:
1. Identify devices to be passed for KB, trackpoint (with buttons) and a touchpad:
Run "cat /dev/input/py-path/<device>" for each suspectedly-relevant device (those must have "-event" in their name). Monitor if console responds to your physical actions on the inspected device, like "cat /dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-2-event-mouse" and press any key/move trackpoint, touch touchpad, etc. Touchpads may sit on i2c (like /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:15.1-platform-i2c_designware.1-event-mouse).
Alternative is to use lspci/lsusb, but inspecting/cat input devices (0..3) is a faster way.
2. Add each device into your VM conf (/etc/pve/qemu-server/<VMID>.conf).
2.a. Keyboard may be added using "-object input-linux"
2.b. Add trackpoint/touchpad using "-device virtio-input-host-pci,id=input1". Otherwise, if you add touchpad using "-object", it will behave weirdly - if you touch top left corner of the pad and move, it will place the curson to top left corner of the screen (absolute positioning and not relative one). I wasn't able to pass trackpoint using "-object" either.
3. Verify it works. Upon shutdown they're released to the host.
The last step for using a laptop with no-x11 proxmox as as host (as clean as possible) an one of VMs with desktop environment as a GUI console is to figure out how to return laptop's display back to host upon VM is shut down. Will be thankfull for the advise.
Some of inputs were taken from this post.
TLDR; for intel-based laptop, add to your /etc/pve/qemu-server/<VMID>.conf:
Bash:
args: -device virtio-input-host-pci,id=input1,evdev=/dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-2-event-mouse -device virtio-input-host-pci,id=input0,evdev=/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:15.1-platform-i2c_designware.1-event-mouse -object input-linux,id=kbd1,evdev=/dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd,grab_all=on,repeat=onSteps:
1. Identify devices to be passed for KB, trackpoint (with buttons) and a touchpad:
Run "cat /dev/input/py-path/<device>" for each suspectedly-relevant device (those must have "-event" in their name). Monitor if console responds to your physical actions on the inspected device, like "cat /dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-2-event-mouse" and press any key/move trackpoint, touch touchpad, etc. Touchpads may sit on i2c (like /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:15.1-platform-i2c_designware.1-event-mouse).
Alternative is to use lspci/lsusb, but inspecting/cat input devices (0..3) is a faster way.
2. Add each device into your VM conf (/etc/pve/qemu-server/<VMID>.conf).
2.a. Keyboard may be added using "-object input-linux"
2.b. Add trackpoint/touchpad using "-device virtio-input-host-pci,id=input1". Otherwise, if you add touchpad using "-object", it will behave weirdly - if you touch top left corner of the pad and move, it will place the curson to top left corner of the screen (absolute positioning and not relative one). I wasn't able to pass trackpoint using "-object" either.
3. Verify it works. Upon shutdown they're released to the host.
The last step for using a laptop with no-x11 proxmox as as host (as clean as possible) an one of VMs with desktop environment as a GUI console is to figure out how to return laptop's display back to host upon VM is shut down. Will be thankfull for the advise.
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