RE: [Xen-users] Keyboard change

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geert Janssens [mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 18 May 2007 17:15
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Petersson, Mats; ben henrion
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Keyboard change
> 
> On Wednesday 16 May 2007 11:49, Petersson, Mats wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > > ben henrion
> > > Sent: 16 May 2007 09:15
> > > To: xen-users
> > > Subject: [Xen-users] Keyboard change
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > > it's not the first time but  ...  Who know?
> > > Well, I use xen in HVM. All works fine, my  keyboard in Dom0
> > > is AZERTY, but this keyboard become QWERTY when i enter in
> > > VM, it's not useful to type password.
> > > How can i keep my keyboard AZERTY in my VM and in Dom0?
> >
> > As long as you have a recent version of xen, you should be 
> able to say
> > "keymap=<lang>", e.g. "keymap=fr" in the config file.
> >
> Would 
> xen-3.0.3-25.0.3.el5
> be considered recent enough (the system is CentOS 5) ?
> 
> I ask because I have a similar problem with the keymap. I 
> have setup CentOS 5 
> in dom0 with a paravirtualized CentOS 5 domU.
> 
> Both are configured with azerty keyboard layouts. When I 
> connect to the domU 
> via a VNC connection (though the virt-manager GUI), I have to 
> use a QUERTY 
> layout to work in the VNC window.
> 
> The relevant entries in my config file are:
> vfb = [ 
> 'type=vnc,vnclisten=0.0.0.0,vncunused=1,display=localhost:12.0' ]
> keymap = 'nl-be'

The keyboard mapping has been in Xen's QEMU for a while, since changeset 10673 
at the least (which is before 3.0.3). 


However, "xm create" will ignore it until changeset 12467, which is about 
halfway through 3.0.3 -> 3.0.4 changes, so no, 3.0.3 will not support keymap 
setting. You need to update to a newer version of Xen to make use of this 
feature [or you could try to backport this change, but I think that's a harder 
task]. 

> 
> Note that I also required the single quotes around the keymap 
> value or xm 
> create would halt with an error:
> Error: name 'nl' is not defined

Yes, that makes sense. The config script is essentially a python script, which 
means that you can use for example variables in it. Of course, anything without 
quotes will be seen as a variable, not a text-constant. 

Sorry if I was unclear about that earlier [some things are just so obvious when 
you've been doing it for a while]. 

--
Mats
> 
> Any chance to have a Azerty keymap when using VNC ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Geert
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> > Mats
> >
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