Send ALT+CTRL+Delete to QEMU virtual machine 1
Recently we wanted to start a Windows virtual machine from a physical hard disk using a Fedora
w/ GNOME
3 host machine to change the domain password of a user.
To do so, we used QEMU, QEMU
is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.
To perform the password change, we needed to sent the ALT
+CTRL
+Delete
key combination to the virtual machine to access the system screen and then change the user password.
Pressing ALT
+CTRL
+Delete
on the Fedora
/GNOME 3
host machine, it popped up a prompt to shut down the host machine instead of sending the key combination to the active window of the VM. Apparently, we could not sent the key combination directly to the VM and had to find a way around it.
Solution:
We pressed ALT
+CTRL
+2
while the QEMU
window was selected/active to switch to the QEMU
terminal/monitor.
In the blank screen that appeared, we typed sendkey alt-ctrl-delete
and pressed the Enter
key.
This action sent to the virtual machine OS the key combination ALT
+CTRL
+Delete
.
Finally, to switch back to the guest screen we pressed ALT
+CTRL
+1
.