[Libvir] [PATCH] Keyboard layout support for QEMU/KVM

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 07:36:11PM +0100, Soren Hansen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 07:09:23PM +0100, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
> > This patch adds support for qemu's -k option, which is required to run
> > virt-manager with a non-US keymap. Without it, keys are remapped a number
> > of times, ending up with a completely unusable layout.
> > 
> > Even with this patch I am having problems using the AltGr key, returning a
> > scancode of 00. This seems to be a qemu problem though.
> 
> Note that a different solution to the same problem has been proposed by
> Anthony Liguori.
> 
>    http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=478A6BFA.80009%40codemonkey.ws&forum_name=gtk-vnc-devel

That's tangential. Daniel's patch is needed to support current real world
usage of QEMU/KVM.  Anthony's proposal is something for future impls.

Dan.
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