[Xen-users] Keyboard repeat error - VNC Xen virtual framebuffer

[Garrett Robinson <Garrett.Robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Xen-Users,

I am currently provisioning old Linux guests as HVM on a server, and giving clients access through VNC. The current setup uses the default Xen framebuffer as a VNC server (all configuration files have vnc=1 and  a few other settings), and my clients are using vinagre (a.k.a. Remote Desktop Viewer) on Arch as their VNC client.

Problem: Keyboard input is not consistently handled between the VNC client and VM. Sometimes keystrokes are dropped, more noticeably some seem to be repeated, sometimes many times. For example, tapping "Return" may send 10 or 20 newlines to a terminal. Sometimes this appears to bog down the VM and it essentially hangs for 30 sec. - 1 minute while random characters, sometimes just a steady stream of newlines that were not typed are spewed into the input.

Has anybody had experience with this or a similar problem? Google did not turn up much that was similiar, and certainly no solutions. Any help would be much appreciated, as this problem is quite aggravating and distracts from Xen's other great qualities!

Sincerely,
Garrett Robinson

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Garrett Robinson
(484) 802-3882
Oberlin College '11

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