Description of problem: I installed Rawhide from a snapshot livecd image found in torrent.fedoraproject.org (rawhide-20071019-i686.iso) with virt-manager, using Qemu with KVM. The host system has a Finnish keyboard with Finnish layout being used. The guest machine won't respond correctly to keypresses, but instead shows unwanted characters when trying to write non-alphanumeric text, like a '+' when trying to write a '-'. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.4.0-2.fc7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use a Finnish keyboard and layout on the host machine. 2. Install a Fedora Rawhide guest, selecting Finnish layout there. 3. Boot the guest operating system 4. Try to write something with '-', 'ö' or '\', for example. Actual results: '-' get read as + 'ö' and '\' are nowhere to be found Expected results: Typing on the guest machine should be like typing on the host machine. Additional info: The keyboard works as expected if the guest operating system is run with qemu-kvm, without virt-manager: qemu-kvm -hda /dev/sda8
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.