Hi, i have a vm which resides in a plain logical volume (without FS). vm is not booting because of wrong disk layout in fstab and GRUB. Normally no problem, i change it with a live cd. But i have big trouble with the keyboard. I choosed already different knoppix versions, tried several keyboards. Always a mess. Return shows a +, backspace a ', and so on. Host is SLES 11 SP4, vm is SLES 10 SP4. kvm is 1.4.2. I'm connected to the host with a tunneled X (via ssh). Starting a xterm on the host and typing, all characters are fine. I can't even enter the bios nor get a boot menu via F12 in the vm. Thanks for any help. Bernd -- Bernd Lentes Systemadministration institute of developmental genetics Gebäude 35.34 - Raum 208 HelmholtzZentrum München bernd.lentes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx phone: +49 (0)89 3187 1241 fax: +49 (0)89 3187 2294 Erst wenn man sich auf etwas festlegt kann man Unrecht haben Scott Adams Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1 85764 Neuherberg www.helmholtz-muenchen.de Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende: MinDir'in Baerbel Brumme-Bothe Geschaeftsfuehrer: Prof. Dr. Guenther Wess, Heinrich Bassler, Dr. Alfons Enhsen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 6466 USt-IdNr: DE 129521671