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title: Share an input device with a guest using evdev
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date: 2022-08-25T20:26:02.610Z
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dateCreated: 2022-08-13T00:26:02.801Z
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# Share an input device
> *Input grabbing on Wayland doesn't currently work as expected. Destkop environments based on the X session manager may work better in this regard*
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There are multiple ways to share an input device with a virtual machine.
## Event device
Event device or simply `evdev` is a generic input event interface that is part of the Linux kernel.
The following is an XML snippet example for sharing a mouse and a keyboard.
```
```
Replace the `platform-i8042-serio-1-event-mouse` value with the value under `/dev/input/by-path/*` or `/dev/input/by-id/*`
If there are multiple possible options, the input device has to have `event` in the name.
```
sudo cat /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:09:00.0-event-mouse
```
```
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��c 3
��c����c����cd���cd���c�2��c�2��cz��cz��c�Q��c�Q��c����c����c����c����cda
��cda
```