No keyboard input to VM condoles via VNC connection to virt-manager (Debian Jessie/KDE)

Question

I'm attempting to provision and manage VM hosts remotely via a VNC connection to a server hosting libvirt and its associated KVM/QEMU hypervisor mechanisms.

All keyboard and mouse functionality WORKS when consoling locally to the individual VMs.

Accessing the same VMs remotely via a VNC connection FAILS to provide keyboard input to e.g. login. I have keyboard and mouse activity through the VNC connection to the virt-manager hosting machine; and the mouse works on the individual VMs. For some perplexing reason, the keyboard does not register on the VMs over VNC.

Any help here?

Answer 1

I had the same problem until I switched to TigerVNC from TightVNC.