Ubuntu
virt-manager package

  1. Bug #348364
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 348364

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In , Klaus-Peter (klaus-peter-redhat-bugs) wrote :

Description of problem:
I have created two virtual machines with virt-manager:
- Windows XP (32bit)
- Fedora 10 (64bit).
Both installed without problems, but when I try to make any text input in either of the guest OS, I get a strange, 'qwertyu' type keyboard layout.

On the host, I am using KDE 4.2, a German keyboard (evdev-managed) with DE layout. Changing keyboard model from edev-managed to Generic doesn't make any noticeable difference.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kvm-74-10.fc10.x86_6
qemu-0.9.1-10.fc10.x86_64
virt-manager-0.6.0-5.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create virtual machine with virt-manager
2. Start guest from virt-manager
3. Enter text in guest

Actual results:
Unexpected keyboard layout of unknown type, unusable

Expected results:
German 'qwertzu' keyboard layout

Additional info:
1. Whenever I switch the keyboard layout to "US" on the host, I immediately get a layout on the guest which is nearly ok (no symbols obtainable with the AltGr key); when I switch back to "DE", the borked layout is back.

2. When I run any of the guests with the qemu-kvm command, I get a guest layout which is nearly ok as well.