Problem with keyboard layout in kvm virtual machine

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Klaus-Peter Schrage schrieb:
> Matthew Flaschen schrieb:
>> Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> You didn't mention what your host architecture was.  man qemu mentions a
>> -k keyboard language option, but says, "This option is only needed where
>> it is not easy to get raw PC key‐codes (e.g. on Macs, with some X11
>> servers or with a VNC display). You don’t normally need to use it on
>> PC/Linux or PC/Windows hosts."  You could try experimenting with that.
> 
> Sorry, I forgot to mention: The host is a Fedora i86_64 installation, 
> and up to now I have used virt-manager for creation and management of 
> the Win XP guest.
> 
> As a try, I started the guest with
>     $ sudo qemu-kvm XP.img
> and even without the option "-k de", this gave me the proper German 
> keyboard layout in XP.
> 
> Back to virt-manager, the old behaviour reappeared. I would like to stay 
> with this tool because of its easy ways to configure the hardware. Are 
> there any hidden configuration slots that I have missed, or is it time 
> for filing a bug report against virt-manager?
> Klaus

In case someone has a similar problem: I have filed a bug (including a 
workaround) against virt-manager:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487735
Klaus