I recently setup a test box to run KVM so I can run several VMs to experiment on; The host is running Debian 8.2, qemu-KVM, virtual machine manager, and xrdp (allows me to use it headless and easy access from my windows machines). When I'm remotely accessing the system through remote desktop (rdp/xrdp) I can get everything setup through Virtual Machine manager but once I launch the guest/client for the new VM my keyboard commands are no longer passed along. I'm thinking that this might be because my inputs (mouse/keyboard) are already be piped through xrdp and not being passed to my new guest vm (though mouse input does). Is this a setting in my xrdp setup or in the way KVM is handling the viewed hardware?