Keyboard layout problem in XEN virtual machine

[Mertens, Bram]

> 


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-----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jose R R
> Sent: dinsdag 12 februari 2008 6:35
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Keyboard layout problem in XEN virtual machine
> 
> On 2/11/08, Mertens, Bram <mertensb at mazdaeur.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > My office uses a number of Windows-only tools which is forcing me to
> > reboot into Windows several times a say.  To avoid this I'd 
> like to set
> > up a virtual machine (using XEN) so I can run those tools in it.
> >
> > After strugling to get Windows XP to install (halfway during the
> > installation it forces a restart and after this it wouldn't 
> find the CD)
> 
> 
> Indeed, virt-manager is quirky and behaves as your described. 
>  I have found
> that directly manipulating the Xen guests through the Xen command line
> interface is easier than using virt-manager in certain cases (like the
> two-phase WinXX installation, for instance).
> 
> 
> I discovered that even though all the keyboard and language 
> settings are
> > in XP the keyboard layout is still wrong.  We use azerty 
> keyboards and I
> > have configured the virtual machine as such but *after the 
> installation*
> > the keyboard is interpreted as querty.  I stress *after the
> > installation* because somewhere during the installation you 
> can change
> > the keyboard layout - which I did - and after that the 
> keyboard layout
> > was interpreted correctly by the installation program.
> >
> > How can I configure the virtual machine to recognize my keyboard as
> > azerty (be-latin1)?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Bram
> 
> 
> 
> 
> You may want to read: Defining other keyboard layout through 
> virt-manager
> 
> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/Xen

[...]

Thanks for the link it does look promising but I must have made a
mistake because it didn't help and after trying to configure the default
keyboard layout as suggested in the article I couldn't even start the
virtual machine anymore.

I'll have to try some more.

Regards

Bram