On Dec 3, 2007 1:00 AM, James Wilde <James.Wilde at 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)? http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/Xen