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title: Share an input device with a guest using evdev
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date: 2023-02-08T19:09:51.570Z
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dateCreated: 2022-08-13T00:26:02.801Z
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# Share an input device
In this section, we focus on sharing a device locally.
## Event device
Libvirt offers a very low-latency way to share an input device device with a local virtual machine, using the linux evdev event interface.
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.
```
# cat /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:09:00.0-event-mouse
```
```
��c $
��c���c���c�$��c�$��c��c��c
```
## Virtio-input
> Input grabbing on Wayland doesn't currently work as expected using Spice or VNC. Destkop environments based on the X session manager may work better.
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