On 2/11/08, Mertens, Bram <mertensb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi > > My office uses a number of Windows-only tools which is forcing me to > reboot into Windows several times a say. To avoid this I'd like to set > up a virtual machine (using XEN) so I can run those tools in it. > > After strugling to get Windows XP to install (halfway during the > installation it forces a restart and after this it wouldn't find the CD) Indeed, virt-manager is quirky and behaves as your described. I have found that directly manipulating the Xen guests through the Xen command line interface is easier than using virt-manager in certain cases (like the two-phase WinXX installation, for instance). I discovered that even though all the keyboard and language settings are > in XP the keyboard layout is still wrong. We use azerty keyboards and I > have configured the virtual machine as such but *after the installation* > the keyboard is interpreted as querty. I stress *after the > installation* because somewhere during the installation you can change > the keyboard layout - which I did - and after that the keyboard layout > was interpreted correctly by the installation program. > > How can I configure the virtual machine to recognize my keyboard as > azerty (be-latin1)? > > Regards > > Bram You may want to read: Defining other keyboard layout through virt-manager http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/Xen Good luck! Jose R Rodriguez http://www.metztli-it.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
