Bug 353181

This problem still persists in virt-manager in Rawhide. Pressing keys that
differ in US English and Finnish keyboards results in weird characters getting
through to the guest OS.

If I change my keyboard layout to US English, my keyboard seems to work mostly
fine in the graphical console. Thus I can actually work around the bug, but
this behavior seems unintended.

Another workaround to the problem is to not use virt-manager, but instead
launch qemu-kvm manually and use the SDL console that it provides, in which my
keyboard works as expected.

Is this limited to virtualization? I had the same problem in a regular install:
selected FI Latin-1 keyboard during installation of F9 Beta and got a US English
layout in GNOME. I had to add the Finnish layout in GNOME manually (console
without X was FI as expected), make it the default and it still wouldn't stick.
I removed the US Eng layout from the list, and after that I have got the finnish
layout every time.

The problem specifically referred to in this bug is related to the VNC server
and its interaction with the guest OS virtual keyboard.

If you have problems with installs of non-virtualized guests, please create a
separate bug against anaconda for that.

Reporter, can what is your KEYTABLE entry in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard for finnish
layout? Also, for the initial guest you created, can you try 'virsh dumpxml
<guestname>' and see if the <graphics> tag has a keymap= entry? If so, please
paste that as well. Thanks!

Note: I am currently using Fedora 8 x86_64, configured similarly the the former
installations where I had the same problem.

Anyways, here is the output:

[root@fedora ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard | grep KEYTABLE
KEYTABLE="fi"

[root@fedora ~]# virsh dumpxml Fedora_8
<domain type='kvm' id='2'>
  <name>Fedora_8</name>
  <uuid>25532750-dfd4-cbed-bda3-fa2e70eb18d2</uuid>
  <memory>1048576</memory>
  <currentMemory>1048576</currentMemory>
  <vcpu>1</vcpu>
  <os>
    <type>hvm</type>
    <boot dev='hd'/>
  </os>
  <features>
    <acpi/>
  </features>
  <clock offset='utc'/>
  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <source file='/home/qemu-images/F8.img'/>
      <target dev='hda'/>
    </disk>
    <interface type='network'>
      <mac address='00:16:3e:0c:1d:49'/>
      <source network='default'/>
      <target dev='vnet0'/>
    </interface>
    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
    <graphics type='vnc' port='5900' listen='127.0.0.1'/>
  </devices>
</domain>

As far as I can tell, there is no keymap= entry in the <graphics> tag. I posted
the output anyway, so you can be sure that I didn't misinterpret it.

Quick addition: Changing the line
<graphics type='vnc' port='5900' listen='127.0.0.1'/>
into
<graphics type='vnc' port='-1' listen='127.0.0.1' keymap='fi'/>

seems to have worked around the layout problem. I think virt-manager should set
the keymap= entry as default to match the system's physical keyboard, if possible.

Alt Gr still doesn't seem to do anything in the virtual machine console.

The fix for the 'fi' case should already be upstream:

http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-manager--devel?cs=98cd7845a3b5

With this changeset, any new guest you create should automatically set up the
correct fi keymap for the guest. Also upstream is the ability to custom specify
a keymap for the graphics device after install. Not as helpful, but if there are
issues in the future it can be remedied without having to manually edit the xml.

Setting bug to POST.

Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

virt-manager-0.6.0-0.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virt-manager-0.6.0-0.fc9

virt-manager-0.6.0-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virt-manager-0.6.0-1.fc9

virt-manager-0.6.0-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update virt-manager'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-10705

virt-manager-0.6.0-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.