[libvirt] how to configure keymap & keyboard layout with virt-manager
Hi, I'm fighting to configure the keyboard on libvirt (kvm) (0.6.1-0ubuntu5). I'm using a belgian keyboard, so, my question is : - Which keyboard layout should I place in the xml file (or through the vm display adapter configuration). - Which keyboard layout should I use in the vm ? PS: When I use 'be' as keymap on the vnc line, the libvirtd just segfault at startup. Regards, -- François Delpierre
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 11:07:46PM +0200, libvirt@pivert.org wrote:
Hi,
I'm fighting to configure the keyboard on libvirt (kvm) (0.6.1-0ubuntu5). I'm using a belgian keyboard, so, my question is : - Which keyboard layout should I place in the xml file (or through the vm display adapter configuration). - Which keyboard layout should I use in the vm ?
PS: When I use 'be' as keymap on the vnc line, the libvirtd just segfault at startup.
libvirtd or QEMU ? I don't see why libvirtd would SEGV for a 'be' keyboard, but QEMU certainly might if it were not supported. QEMU only supports a handful of keymaps (see /usr/share/qemu/keymaps) and I dont think 'be' is one of them. Our recommendation is to never set the '-k' /keymap option at all these days. Recent QEMU / KVM and GTK-VNC releases support a VNC extension for sending raw keycodes, instead of localized keysyms. Thus is best to leave off the keymap in the config, and just configure it inside the guest OS. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|
Thanks for the tip Daniel, I'll check how it performs this way. I found the belgian keyboard : /usr/share/qemu/keymaps/fr-be Regards, On Monday 11 May 2009 12:44:57 Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 11:07:46PM +0200, libvirt@pivert.org wrote:
Hi,
I'm fighting to configure the keyboard on libvirt (kvm) (0.6.1-0ubuntu5). I'm using a belgian keyboard, so, my question is : - Which keyboard layout should I place in the xml file (or through the vm display adapter configuration). - Which keyboard layout should I use in the vm ?
PS: When I use 'be' as keymap on the vnc line, the libvirtd just segfault at startup.
libvirtd or QEMU ? I don't see why libvirtd would SEGV for a 'be' keyboard, but QEMU certainly might if it were not supported.
QEMU only supports a handful of keymaps (see /usr/share/qemu/keymaps) and I dont think 'be' is one of them.
Our recommendation is to never set the '-k' /keymap option at all these days. Recent QEMU / KVM and GTK-VNC releases support a VNC extension for sending raw keycodes, instead of localized keysyms. Thus is best to leave off the keymap in the config, and just configure it inside the guest OS.
Daniel
-- François Delpierre
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