virtual console uses incorrect keyboard map

[Neil Wilson]

Binary package hint: virt-manager

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

virt-manager:
  Installed: 0.5.3-0ubuntu10

The virtual console for QEMU machines fails to recognise my UK keyboard, reverting to a slightly unusual variant of a US keyboard (# key generating a 3).

dpkg-reconfigure console-setup appears to show the correct settings.

However if I ssh into the machines via Gnome terminal then the keyboard map is fine.

[Per (per-redhat-bugs)]

Description of problem:

I run F7 with a Norwegian keyboard. When installing windows xp as a client
under virt-manager I also use the Norwegian layout. But windows is the not
able to see or correctly use all national characters on the keyboard.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install windows xp under virt-manager.
2. Set keyboard to Norwegian.
3. Some characters then does not work correctly.

Actual results:

Problems actually using windows.

Expected results:

All the keys should work.

Additional info:

English Windows XP with Norwegian keyboard.

[Thomas (thomas-redhat-bugs)]

I do have the same problem.
I'm running F7 with a german keyboard layout and installed a german Windows
Server 2003 and a german Windows XP. Both have set the german keyboard layout,
but it is a little bit english and a little bit from a other layout.

[Red (red-redhat-bugs)]

change QA contact

[Nikos (nikos-redhat-bugs)]

i have also problem with (Greek)keyboard. I installed f9 alpha under
virt-manager and i cant type numbers (number keys show only upper symbols) also
i cant type dot (shows >) and cap locks have exactly thew opposite behaviour

[Cole (cole-redhat-bugs)]

To all commenters: what is your KEYTABLE entry in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard?
virt-manager reads this and attempts to do the right thing when setting up a vnc
console. Also, try 'virsh dumpxml <guestname>', and see if the <graphics> tag
has a keymap= setting. If so, paste that as well.

Basically, your host machine keymap must match your vnc keymap, which must match
the keymap in the guest for this to all work. The problems you are seeing is
most likely a result of an improperly set up vnc keymap.

Thanks

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[Brennan (brennan-redhat-bugs)]

Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in
one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

[Christoph (christoph-redhat-bugs)]

Hi,

I am having the same issues with a german layout.

[root@choeger6 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
KEYTABLE="de-latin1"

I will also attach my virtual machine configuration.

[Christoph (christoph-redhat-bugs)]

Created attachment 310724
virtual machine file

[Christoph (christoph-redhat-bugs)]

You can easily work around that by setting the qemu -k option (see man page for
details).

This worked for me:

[root@choeger6 ~]# cat /usr/bin/qemu-kvm
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/qemu-kvm.bin -k de $@

(except that ALT-GR did not work, but I consider this a vnc problem)

[Nikos (nikos-redhat-bugs)]

<graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' keymap='en-us'/>

KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
KEYTABLE="gr"
LAYOUT="us,gr"
MODEL="pc105"
OPTIONS="grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
VARIANT=""

this is from F10. Problem remains

[Cole (cole-redhat-bugs)]

Comment #10 (Nikos), which of these keymaps sounds like the best fit?

ar de-ch es fo fr-ca hu ja mk no pt-br sv
da en-gb et fr fr-ch is lt nl pl ru th
de en-us fi fr-be hr it lv nl-be pt sl tr

[Cole (cole-redhat-bugs)]

Okay, I've committed a fix upstream that will make a lot of these issues go away in the future (and make my life easier):

http://hg.et.redhat.com/cgi-bin/hg-virt.cgi/applications/virtinst--devel/rev/b9a4f2d775ca

This fixes the mapping for Comment #9 (Christoph Höger), but I still need info from Comment #10 (Nikos) to determine the ideal mapping (please see Comment #11)

Moving to POST in the interim.

[Nikos (nikos-redhat-bugs)]

(In reply to comment #11)
> Comment #10 (Nikos), which of these keymaps sounds like the best fit?
>
> ar de-ch es fo fr-ca hu ja mk no pt-br sv
> da en-gb et fr fr-ch is lt nl pl ru th
> de en-us fi fr-be hr it lv nl-be pt sl tr

I cant see any Greek keymap in the above options.
Anyway this is a console only thing so i suppose en-us will be the most appropriate solution.

[Daniel (daniel-redhat-bugs)]

Ideally we should now stop ever setting a keymap flag for new KVM/Xen. The latest QEMU VNC code has a special VNC extension which lets us pass raw scancodes to the guest. By removing the keymap, we thus let the guest OS have total control over the scancode -> keycode -> keysym translation, and avoid needing to create every single keyboard map in QEMU

[Cole (cole-redhat-bugs)]

What packages and versions are at play here? KVM, gtk-vnc, qemu? Should we only drop this for rawhide/f11 or f9/f10? Maybe libvirt should just skip setting the keymap (even if one is passed) for sufficiently new versions of qemu or kvm, since it's already grabbing that version information.

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python-virtinst-0.400.2-1.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-virtinst-0.400.2-1.fc10

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python-virtinst-0.400.2-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update python-virtinst'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-2403

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python-virtinst-0.400.3-1.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-virtinst-0.400.3-1.fc10

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python-virtinst-0.400.3-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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[Magnus (magnus-redhat-bugs)]

Correct keyboard maps for Fedora Core 10 (generated by system-config-keyboard):

ar-azerty, ar-azerty-digits, ar-digits, ar-qwerty, ar-qwerty-digits, be-latin1, ben, ben-probhat, bg_bds-utf8, bg_pho-utf8, br-abnt2, cf, croat, cz-lat2, cz-us-qwertz, de, de-latin1, de-latin1-nodeadkeys, dev, dk, dk-latin1, dvorak, es, et, fi, fi-latin1, fr, fr-latin1, fr-latin9, fr-pc, fr_CH, fr_CH-latin1, gr, guj, gur, hu, hu101, ie, is-latin1, it, it-ibm, it2, jp106, ko, la-latin1, mk-utf, nl, no, pl2, pt-latin1, ro, ro-cedilla, ro-std, ro-std-cedilla, ru, sg, sg-latin1, sk-qwerty, slovene, sr-cy, sr-latin, sv-latin1, tml-inscript, tml-uni, trq, ua-utf, uk, us, us-acentos

I'm running a Swedish (sv-latin1) keyboard map and are experiencing the same issues.

Perhaps a stupid questions, but, should the python-virtinst-fix apply for already installed virtual machines? (I'm thinking not, reading the name of the package..)

This problem is persistent in:
python-virtinst-0.400.0-5.fc10.noarch

I'm trying out python-virtinst.noarch 0:0.400.3-1.fc10 but haven't had time to do an install yet. For already installed machines, it's the same problem. I'll get back with info as soon as I've done an install.

[Cole (cole-redhat-bugs)]

It won't change the setup for existing machines. You can remove the vnc device via virt-manager, and re-add it with a proper keymap (you probably want 'sv' ) to try and sort it out.

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[Mark (mark-redhat-bugs)]

Does this still happen on Fedora 10. Does this update help?

  http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-2612

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[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

This should be fixed in the latest Lucid virt-manager and virtinst packages.