KVM keyboard layout problem
 

Hi.


I've just installed my first couple of virtual machines (VM's) in Ubuntu using virt-manager running on KVM. I've installed both Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 9.10, and in both I'm having problems setting up the keyboard.

While in Gnome, I click System > Preferences > Keyboard, and choose the same keyboard as my Ubuntu host is set up with, i.e. "Generic 105-key (Intl) PC". But when I type in stuff in the "Type to test settings" box, many of the keys are completely off. For example, in norwegian we have letters such as "æ", "ø" and "å", and typing these keys results in nothing.

So how come the setting is working on my host, but not in my guests (i.e. VMs)? Any ideas where to start debugging this?

Edit: I should add that when I choose english layout in the VMs, the key mappings are different from when I choose the same on the host. So there is obviously something wrong somewhere....

Regards,
kenneho

you need to change your language settings, not the amount of keys your keyboard has.
Look for something along the lines of regional settings in your system preferences.

Thanks for your reply.

I don't believe it's my language settings that are causing the symptom, cause I've found that if I boot my virtual machine (VM) from the "virt-manager" application, it get keyboard problems, but booting it like this everything is just perfect:
So for some reason, booting the VM from "virt-manager" is different from booting via the command line issuing "kvm ...". Do you happen to know what the big difference is?

I've moved this discussion to the virtualization forum:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-works-769091/