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Re: [Xen-users] Keyboard change

To: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Keyboard change
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 18:05:33 +0100
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On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:28:54PM +0200, Petersson, Mats wrote:
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 18 May 2007 17:25
> > To: Geert Janssens
> > Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Petersson, Mats
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Keyboard change
> > 
> > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:15:08PM +0200, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 16 May 2007 11:49, Petersson, Mats wrote:
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > > > > ben henrion
> > > > > Sent: 16 May 2007 09:15
> > > > > To: xen-users
> > > > > Subject: [Xen-users] Keyboard change
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > it's not the first time but  ...  Who know?
> > > > > Well, I use xen in HVM. All works fine, my  keyboard in Dom0
> > > > > is AZERTY, but this keyboard become QWERTY when i enter in
> > > > > VM, it's not useful to type password.
> > > > > How can i keep my keyboard AZERTY in my VM and in Dom0?
> > > >
> > > > As long as you have a recent version of xen, you should 
> > be able to say
> > > > "keymap=<lang>", e.g. "keymap=fr" in the config file.
> > > >
> > > Would 
> > > xen-3.0.3-25.0.3.el5
> > > be considered recent enough (the system is CentOS 5) ?
> > 
> > Nope. Unfortunately that doesn't support  specifying keymaps 
> > for PV guests;
> > only for HVM guests in that build. So you're stuck with plain 
> > US layout
> > for now.
> 
> Please explain how you mean. As far as I can tell, the only place where
> keymap is ADDED to create.py in (unstable) changeset 12467, which is
> part of 3.0.4 release, but after 3.0.3 was released. 

CentOS-5 xen RPMs are based on RHEL-5 RPMs, which are 3.0.3 + a number of
important bug fixes + backports. One of those backports was adding

changeset:   12293:ea1ffa51b412
user:        kasai.takanori@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
date:        Wed Nov 08 09:38:06 2006 +0000
summary:     Add the Japanese keymap for VNC Server.

Which (contrary to the summary) introduced full keymap support for HVM. 

Regards,
Dan.
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