VM on suse linux doesn't accept keyboard char correctly

jzoudavy · 04-17-2014, 01:10 PM

Hi all

I got this suse setup that's almost finished but virt-viewer and virt-manager doesn't seem to be able to parse my keyboard input correctly.

Example:
What I type is " or /
What I get is @ or 7

Suse host's keyboard setting is already confirmed to be en-US, and that works perfectly.

The VM itself's keyboard is also en-US, but when I ran the yast and tried to test the layout, it exhibits the same problem of wrongly interpreting my keystrokes.

Right now I got a patchy work around by using en-UK, at least so I can have my " and let me echo stuff.

But I need a more permanent fix for this. And it is still mis-interpreting a lot of other keys. for example, with the en-UK my + is now some other character.

Thanks guys

hotchili · 04-17-2014, 04:31 PM

Hello,

I guess virt-viewer connects via vnc? If so I had a similiar problem with libvirt/qemu.

The solution was to set a keymap for vnc in the configuration. Not sure how that works
with virt-manager maybe there is a gui setting for it.
But with libvirt you can add something like this to the xml config (notice the keymap, de is german qwertz layout)

Code:

<graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' listen='127.0.0.1' keymap='de'>
      <listen type='address' address='127.0.0.1'/>
</graphics>