On di, 2008-11-04 at 21:22 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:57:00AM +0100, Frederik Himpe wrote: > > If I try to enter numerical characters 1234567890 using the keys above > > the alphanumeric part of the keyboard (and typing as if I had a US > > keyboard instead of a Belgian one), I get k23b5s7890. For some reason, > > the 1, 4 and 6 are not working correctly. > > virt-manager tries to configure the guest keymap by mapping from the > keytable in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, to the keymaps available in > QEMU. Check the running 'qemu' process to verify that there is a > '-k' command line arg with the appropriate keymap set. /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc -m 512 -smp 1 -name Cooker -monitor pty -no-reboot -boot d -drive file=/home/frederik/VM/cooker.img,if=ide,index=0 -drive file=/home/frederik/Mandriva/cooker/x86_64/install/images/boot.iso,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2 -net nic,macaddr=54:52:00:38:64:98,vlan=0 -net tap,fd=12,script=,vlan=0,ifname=vnet0 -serial pty -parallel none -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -k fr-be -soundhw es1370 That seems right at first sight. Also in a windows virtual machine, where the Windows keyboard is set to Belgian, this problem does not happen. Only in this installer which expects us-qwerty. > With a newer enough KVM, and new enough GTK-VNC there is a protocol > extension which passes raw scancodes across, avoiding this whole > keymap mess - just need to configure keymap in guest OS to match the > keyboard you use. I'm using KVM 77 on Linux 2.6.27. Is there anything which should be configured so that virt-manager works like this? Thanks! -- Frederik Himpe <fhimpe@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
