Hi all.


On my Ubuntu box running KVM, I've installed a couple of virtual machines (VMs) running Fedora and Ubuntu. Booting these VMs from virt-manager, I get problems with keyboard layout. When booting the same VMs by issuing for example "kvm -hda /var/lib/libvirt/images/ubuntu1.img -m 256 -net nic -net user -soundhw all" the keyboard layout is correct.

I'm running my VMs with a norwegian keyboard layout, but I've run into the same problem when configuring them with english keyboard layout.

Does anyone know what the difference between booting the VMs from virt-manager VS booting them from the command line as described above is? I'm puzzled by why the command line approach works, while to virt-manager approach doesn't when it comes to this keyboard layout problem.


Regards,
kenneho

I found a workaround here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/348364

By running virsh and removing the the reference to keymap in the VM's XML definition, everything works great. It's should be possible to do this in the GUI as well. If anyone knows how to make this default on new VMs please do let me know.


Regards,
kenneho