I am testing Xen on a Centos5 machine. On this machine, the locale is en_US.UTF-8 and the keyboard is Sweden. Everything works fine.
I have created a guest operating system (I'm using vmware terminology, as I am still confused about DomU and Dom0). The guest is also Centos5. According to the configuration files, the locale on the guest is also en_US.UTF-8 and the keyboard Sweden.
However, in the guest, only the alphanumeric keys (a-z, 0-9) work as intended. The numeric keyboard does not appear to work at all. And the non-alphanumeric keys on the alpha keyboard do not produce the symbols they should provided with the Swedish keyboard. There is no key, for example, which produces the hyphen, which means that it is impossible to enter a parameter to a command, such as ls -la.
I wonder if anyone else has had a similar difficulty and found a solution. It doesn't have to be a solution for the Swedish keyboard. Just a pointer or hint would be appreciated.
I'm not too familiar with Centos, which I installed on this test machine because of other dependencies, as we are a Solaris shop and my personal workstation is Ubuntu.
Thanks in advance for any help.
//James
On Dec 3, 2007 1:00 AM, James Wilde James.Wilde@bredband.com wrote:
I am testing Xen on a Centos5 machine. On this machine, the locale is en_US.UTF-8 and the keyboard is Sweden. Everything works fine.
I have created a guest operating system (I'm using vmware terminology, as I am still confused about DomU and Dom0). The guest is also Centos5. According to the configuration files, the locale on the guest is also en_US.UTF-8 and the keyboard Sweden.
However, in the guest, only the alphanumeric keys (a-z, 0-9) work as intended. The numeric keyboard does not appear to work at all. And the non-alphanumeric keys on the alpha keyboard do not produce the symbols they should provided with the Swedish keyboard. There is no key, for example, which produces the hyphen, which means that it is impossible to enter a parameter to a command, such as ls -la.
I wonder if anyone else has had a similar difficulty and found a solution. It doesn't have to be a solution for the Swedish keyboard. Just a pointer or hint would be appreciated.
How about this wiki (near the bottom)?
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 01:28 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Dec 3, 2007 1:00 AM, James Wilde James.Wilde@bredband.com wrote:
I am testing Xen on a Centos5 machine. On this machine, the locale is en_US.UTF-8 and the keyboard is Sweden. Everything works fine.
I have created a guest operating system (I'm using vmware terminology, as I am still confused about DomU and Dom0). The guest is also Centos5. According to the configuration files, the locale on the guest is also en_US.UTF-8 and the keyboard Sweden.
However, in the guest, only the alphanumeric keys (a-z, 0-9) work as intended. The numeric keyboard does not appear to work at all. And the non-alphanumeric keys on the alpha keyboard do not produce the symbols they should provided with the Swedish keyboard. There is no key, for example, which produces the hyphen, which means that it is impossible to enter a parameter to a command, such as ls -la.
I wonder if anyone else has had a similar difficulty and found a solution. It doesn't have to be a solution for the Swedish keyboard. Just a pointer or hint would be appreciated.
How about this wiki (near the bottom)?
Just to let you know (as stated on the wiki)that you need to run the latest virt-manager and libvirt packages from CentOS 5.1 ...
On Dec 3, 2007 10:28 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 3, 2007 1:00 AM, James Wilde James.Wilde@bredband.com wrote:
However, in the guest, only the alphanumeric keys (a-z, 0-9) work as intended. The numeric keyboard does not appear to work at all. And the non-alphanumeric keys on the alpha keyboard do not produce the symbols they should provided with the Swedish keyboard. There is no key, for example, which produces the hyphen, which means that it is impossible to enter a parameter to a command, such as ls -la.
I wonder if anyone else has had a similar difficulty and found a solution. It doesn't have to be a solution for the Swedish keyboard. Just a pointer or hint would be appreciated.
How about this wiki (near the bottom)?
Also read this : http://misterd77.blogspot.com/2007/11/xen-graphical-console-and-foreign.html
As you can see in the comment from Konrad you can also set this in the xend-config.sxp to make a certain keyboard layout the default one for all the domU's.
Regards, Tim
Tim Verhoeven wrote on Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:34:59 +0100:
Also read this : http://misterd77.blogspot.com/2007/11/xen-graphical-console-and-foreign.html
As you can see in the comment from Konrad you can also set this in the xend-config.sxp to make a certain keyboard layout the default one for all the domU's.
Thanks for both tips! What a relief!
Kai
Thanks to all who replied to this problem. I'm working on moving from 5.0 to 5.1 now.
//J
-----Original Message----- From: centos-virt-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt- bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Akemi Yagi Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 10:28 To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Problem with foreign-language keyboard
On Dec 3, 2007 1:00 AM, James Wilde James.Wilde@bredband.com wrote:
I am testing Xen on a Centos5 machine. On this machine, the locale is en_US.UTF-8 and the keyboard is Sweden. Everything works fine.
I have created a guest operating system (I'm using vmware terminology,
as I
am still confused about DomU and Dom0). The guest is also Centos5. According to the configuration files, the locale on the guest is also en_US.UTF-8 and the keyboard Sweden.
However, in the guest, only the alphanumeric keys (a-z, 0-9) work as intended. The numeric keyboard does not appear to work at all. And the non-alphanumeric keys on the alpha keyboard do not produce the symbols
they
should provided with the Swedish keyboard. There is no key, for
example,
which produces the hyphen, which means that it is impossible to enter a parameter to a command, such as ls -la.
I wonder if anyone else has had a similar difficulty and found a
solution.
It doesn't have to be a solution for the Swedish keyboard. Just a
pointer
or hint would be appreciated.
How about this wiki (near the bottom)?
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