Keyboard language settings

[taumeister]

Hello Proxmox Team,

i have a very little problem, but it nerves me a lot.

I am simply not able to set the keyboard language of any console on any virtual machine ( pfsense, debian, ubuntu cloud images etc ) to german or to another language.

It relates only to the view I have from the proxmox console.
If I connect from another ( german keyboard )virtual machine, the language is always what i want, but if i connect via proxmox the language is always english.

Yes, I changed
the settings in Datacenter > Options > Keyobard Layout

the settings in the virtual machines with dpkg-reconfigure and so on, although it seems not to be needed,

but I cannot get it to work.

Can you please give me a hint?
For your help many thanks in advance.
Greetings
Thomas

 

[sterzy]

Hi Thomas,

what does the file /etc/default/keyboard in the VM look like?

 

[taumeister]

Hello Sterzy,

thank you very much for your answer.

In the meantime, I also had the opportunity to get a little on the track.

On the individual clients I don't actually need to check the language settings, because when I connect to the clients with from another Linux the problem doesn't exist - it is only via proxmox.

The problem is reproducible when I connect with the standard console (noVNC), when I switch to serial console the problem does not exist.
I have found the problem several times on the internet and it runs through all my Proxmox instances.
In other words, it is a noVNC problem, which is quite annoying.

Is there possibly a noVNC patch from your side to the problem, or maybe you have another idea?

Thanks for your help
Greetings
Thomas

 

[Moayad]

Hmmm, can the interfaces appear if boot the server from an older kernel?

 

[taumeister]

Hello Moayad,

I am not quite sure what you want me to do.
Should I boot from an old kernel?
Please explain in more detail what you want me to do or which information you want to have.
Thanks for your help.
Greetings
Thomas

 

[Moayad]

Sorry, I messed up with the thread. You can ignore my post above.

 

[taumeister]

Is there anyone here from the Proxmox team who could just answer that for me?

Can I just assume that this is a noVNC problem or is there a solution or workaround from proxmox?
Thanks
Thomas

 

[dcsapak]

remove the keyboard setting from the datacenter (i.e. set to 'default') then novnc will always use the keyboard layout configured *inside* the vm
e.g. i have here a debian installation with german layout (configured with 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration'), my client has us layout, but using novnc on that vm it'll use the german layout

 

[taumeister]

Holy moly,
I have searched beyond the vastness of the usual universe for an answer and you just blurt it out here.

I didn't want to try it at first because accessing the VMs from any other machine works and in German, but not from Proxmox.
That's why I didn't see configuring anything on the VMs.
But it is exactly as you said.

In Datacenter
set the language settings to default (English),
then in each VM dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration,
reboot and it's done.

Many, many thanks
Greetings
Thomas