id = 2788
title = "[solved] input mouse and keyboard not working on a distro"
state = "closed"
created_at = "2025-01-22T10:51:05.230Z"
closed_at = "2025-01-22T13:12:34.691Z"
labels = []
url = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2788"
host-os = "Nemesis 24.06 (based on artix, arch)"
host-arch = "x86"
qemu-version = "QEMU emulator version 9.2.50 (v9.2.0-900-g3214bec13d)"
guest-os = "[Nemesis 25.01](https://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=137&t=11535&sid=13db941bd4ff37fa49be828efc84574e#p101500)"
guest-arch = "x86"
description = """The distro work but does not take input from either keyboard or mouse.
At the boot menu (syslinux) where I have to choose the boot mode the keyboard works, but it stops working when the desktop has booted.
The distro is not blocked I can tell by observing that the clock in the panel keeps running and if I click in the qemu menubar on machine > power down, the distro correctly performs the shutdown procedure.
I have tried other distributions (porteus and tinycore) and both do not have this problem.
I also tried using as -display vnc and sdl but I have the same problem.
I am using a [portable version of qemu](https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/new) but I also tried with the repository version having the same problem."""
reproduce = """Simply boot the virtual machine with the distro, in my case with the portable qemu version:
./QEMU-git-x86_64.AppImage qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -enable-kvm -boot d -cdrom ./Nemesis-v25.01-XFCE-x86_64.iso"""
additional = """I am not expert in qemu, if you need some more data I can try to produce it"""