wiki/gofurther/evdev.md

title	description	published	date	tags	editor	dateCreated
Share an input device with a guest using evdev		true	2022-08-25T10:40:44.666Z		markdown	2022-08-13T00:26:02.801Z

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 {.is-warning}

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 a XML snippet example for sharing a mouse and a keyboard.

<input type='evdev'>
      <source dev='/dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-1-event-mouse/'>
</input>
<input type='evdev'>
      <source dev='/dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd' grab='all' repeat='on'/>
</input>

Replace the platform-i8042-serio-1-event-mouse value with the value under /dev/input/by-path/* or /dev/input/by-id/*