qemu git -vnc fails due to missing en-us keymap

[Darren Blaber]

If trying to run qemu with -vnc :0, it will fail with:
./qemu-system-x86_64 -vnc :2
qemu-system-x86_64: -vnc :2: could not read keymap file: 'en-us'

share/keymaps is missing en-us keymap and only has sl and sv, confirmed previous stable versions had en-us.

Tried with multiple targets, on arm64 and amd64

Git commit hash: 9435a8b3dd35f1f926f1b9127e8a906217a5518a (head)

[Darren Blaber (dmbtech)]

A work around to get vnc enabled for those that need it until this is fixed is to manually copy from source tree pc-bios/keymaps/* to qemu-data keymaps directory, usually installed at /usr/share/qemu/keymaps or /usr/local/share/qemu/keymaps (default prefix).

Commit that broke the install of keymaps is either https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/09db9b9db38e82acbc1fd4fa4661ac19c387380c (commit hash 09db9b9db38e82acbc1fd4fa4661ac19c387380c)

or https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/ddcf607fa3d6881cf0286a9b88a40fde265cbe37 (commit hash ddcf607fa3d6881cf0286a9b88a40fde265cbe37)

[Alexander Bulekov (a1xndr)]

I can also reproduce this issue. +CC Gerd Hoffmann

On 200914 1327, Darren Blaber wrote:
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> Title:
> qemu git -vnc fails due to missing en-us keymap
>
> Status in QEMU:
> New
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> Bug description:
> If trying to run qemu with -vnc :0, it will fail with:
> ./qemu-system-x86_64 -vnc :2
> qemu-system-x86_64: -vnc :2: could not read keymap file: 'en-us'
>
> share/keymaps is missing en-us keymap and only has sl and sv,
> confirmed previous stable versions had en-us.
>
> Tried with multiple targets, on arm64 and amd64
>
> Git commit hash: 9435a8b3dd35f1f926f1b9127e8a906217a5518a (head)
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[hippieshaker (bladeboy2000au)]

Confirmed also a problem on the Windows build. Work around is to copy en-us file from
C:\Program Files\qemu\keymaps to qemu folder.

[Thomas Huth (th-huth)]

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