Problem with keyboard layout in kvm virtual machine

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

This weekend I have successfully installed kvm and qemu, and Win XP is 
running in a virtual machine. A problem remains: Win XP installs with 
German locale (the default, as I used a German installation cd), but a 
strange keyboard layout results - some kind of qwertyu, it is not the US 
one which I know.

In KDE (system settings - regional and language) I have set the "DE" 
keyboard layout as well. Whenever I switch to "US" there, I immediatedly 
get the correct layout in the Windows guest, and switching to "DE" again 
in KDE brings back the strange layout in Win XP.

Any pointers to what may be configured wrong are welcome.
Klaus