[et-mgmt-tools] [virt-manager] - VNC does not use correct keyboard map

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 04:28:42PM -0300, Davidson Rodrigues Paulo wrote:
> 2007/10/10, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>:
> > For Brazilian it supports 'pt-br' - if that is compatible
> > with br-abnt2  I can make sure we setup a mapping for br-abnt2 -> pt-br
> 
> Searching on the net I've found that this mapping is stored in a
> Python array in /usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/keytable.py. I've
> not found any entry for 'br-abnt2' keymap, so I modified the file,
> including the following line:
> 
> "br-abnt2":"pt-br",
> 
> After that I recompiled the Python file and restarted libvirtd, but
> this not work...

It'll only take effect for guests created in virt-manager after this
change. In the logs /root/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log you ought
to see the XML description of the guest, with a <graphics> tag mentioning
the keymap

> > It has to be configured at the time the guest OS is installed.
> 
> And after, there is a way to change this?

virsh dumpxml  {NAME|UUID|ID of GUEST}  > guest.xml

edit the guest.xml <graphics> tag to set  keymap="pt-br"

virsh define guest.xml


(Add --connect qemu:///system if using QEMU/KVM rather than Xen)

Then when you start the guest, it should pick up the new keymap. You can
check by looking at the 'qemu' process that gets run.

  ps -axfuww | grep qemu

which should have a -k option with the keymap

Dan.
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