I see this happening in ppc64le and x86_64 with QEMU v2.11.0-1684-ga6e0344fa0. The keystrokes are being sent to tty1:
in x86_64: ./v2.11.0-1684-ga6e0344fa0/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 512 -kernel vmlinuz -initrd initramfs.img -chardev serial,id=s1,path=/dev/pts/10 -mon chardev=s1 -qmp tcp:localhost:4444,server,nowait -vga none -nographic -append "console=ttyS0 i8042.debug" QEMU 2.11.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) sendkey a (qemu) sendkey b (qemu) sendkey c (qemu) sendkey ret # cat /dev/tty1 abc --- same thing with input-send-event: {"events": [{ "type": "key", "data" : { "down": true, "key": {"type": "qcode", "data": "a" } } }]} {"events": [{ "type": "key", "data" : { "down": true, "key": {"type": "qcode", "data": "ret" } } }]} # cat /dev/tty1 abc a I'm not sure what is the expected behavior when using two input sources in this way (serial line + PS/2 keyboard). I'm inclined to say that the keys should indeed not be seen in the serial console. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1688231 Title: [Qemu-ppc] sendkey is not working for any of the keystrokes Status in QEMU: New Bug description: sendkey option is not working for any of the keystrokes in ppc64le, Qemu version: # qemu-img --version qemu-img version 2.9.50 (v2.9.0-303-g81b2d5c-dirty) Qemu command line: # qemu-system-ppc64 --enable-kvm --nographic -vga none -machine pseries -m 4G,slots=32,maxmem=32G -smp 16,maxcpus=32 -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=rootdisk -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/f25-upstream-ppc64le.qcow2,if=none,cache=none,format=qcow2,id=rootdisk -monitor telnet:127.0.0.1:1234,server,nowait -net nic,model=virtio -net user -redir tcp:2000::22 Guest booted successfully and logged in Fedora 25 (Twenty Five) Kernel 4.11.0-rc4 on an ppc64le (hvc0) atest-guest login: updatedb (5582) used greatest stack depth: 9568 bytes left root Password: Last login: Mon Mar 27 01:57:51 on hvc0 [root@atest-guest ~]# Qemu monitor: # telnet 127.0.0.1 1234 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. QEMU 2.9.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) sendkey a (qemu) sendkey ret But from the console, I couldn't observe the keystroke a or return. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1688231/+subscriptions