device: 0.752 graphic: 0.672 vnc: 0.442 other: 0.388 performance: 0.335 semantic: 0.316 socket: 0.262 network: 0.184 boot: 0.179 PID: 0.167 permissions: 0.137 debug: 0.088 files: 0.050 KVM: 0.032 European keyboard PC-105 deadkey With a freshly compiled version of qemu 4.0.50 on Windows 10 (host) I am using 3 different Belgian keyboards and I have the same behaviour - 2 USB keyboards (Logitech and HP) and - the keyboard of my laptop (HP) 3 characters on the same key cannot be used (the key seams to be dead): < (less than), > (greater than) used with the combination of LShift or RShift \ (backslash) used with the combination of AltGr Using grub command mode from an archlinux installation (5.1.4) The keyboard seams to be a mix of azerty and qwerty keyboard all letters are correctly mapped but all numbers and special characters are not Using sendkey in monitor "sendkey <" results in : \ "sendkey shift-<" results in : | "sendkey ctrl-alt-<" results in : nothing REM: VirtualBox can handle this key and with the showkey command from the archlinux kbd package, it shows : keycode 86 press keycode 86 release This is an automated cleanup. This bug report has been moved to QEMU's new bug tracker on gitlab.com and thus gets marked as 'expired' now. Please continue with the discussion here: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/174