Send custom shortcuts to guest

[Andrew15-5]

I confirm this feature has not been previously requested

• I have searched the issues and this feature has not previously been requested

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I want to switch to a tty1 (and others) inside guest (Linux), but instead I can only switch to it in host (Linux).

Describe the solution you'd like
Probably something similar to https://askubuntu.com/q/54814. I don't really care.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I don't see any alternatives.

Additional context
None.

[lj3954]

Quickemu's monitor-cmd flag is probably what you're looking for. Or, you can manually connect to the QEMU monitor, that quickemu lists when you launch a VM, with a tool of your choosing.

[Andrew15-5]

If I have a running VM, how would I use the monitor-cmd flag to send a shortcut to the specific VM?

[lj3954]

quickemu --vm ${CONF_FILE} --monitor-cmd ${CMD}

[Andrew15-5]

It can't be that easy.

Wow, I thought it is more complicated that that. I also found out that I have to make the last few arguments a single one:

conf := "nixos.conf"
default:
  quickemu --vm '{{conf}}' --display spice

cmd *args:
  quickemu --vm '{{conf}}' --monitor-cmd '{{args}}'

alias sh := shortcut
shortcut *args:
  quickemu --vm '{{conf}}' --monitor-cmd 'sendkey {{args}}'

tty n="7":
  quickemu --vm '{{conf}}' --monitor-cmd 'sendkey ctrl-alt-f{{n}}'

I also found the example for this exact use case in https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/monitor.html.

Now I can easily switch between ttys with a simple j tty 1.

Thank you for your support.