How can I use the Windows keys / my language specific keys under Qemu?
• A: Try the -k option to specify a keymap. You need Qemu 0.7 or newer; then you can find available keymaps under Linux at /usr/share/qemu/keymaps/ . These keymaps support at least the Windows keys. If your language-specific keys don’t work, there are several possibilities: ‘ The keymaps don’t support them. You can detect this if you get messages like “no scancode found for keysym …” when pressing such a key. In this case, you can try to add support for this key in the keymap file. ‘ Qemu doesn’t support them, or ‘ SDL doesn’t support them. ‘ The latter two cases are AFAIK more difficult to detect. There exist patches for SDL which add support for some keys… • Q: After installing Windows 2000 and restarting, the screen only shows “Disk error, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot”. • A: Try a newer version; this problem is known in Qemu 0.6.1 and earlier, but it is fixed in 0.7. • Q: I can’t run my favourite OS on an emulated PPC / Sparc==== It crashes / shows strange errors / whatever! • A
