Wrong console keyboard layout applied

[jehutyy]

hi,

I have an issue concerning console keyboard layout. I've configured datacenter/option to use a 'fr' keyboard layout but it appears, when in vm console, that the keyboard layout resembles something like 'fr-oss'.

It seems that the console doesn't reflect the actual configuration.


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jehutyy

 

[Dominic]

Hi!

Do you mean the noVNC window? If yes, the window that you can open with the button on the top-right or the console that is available in the content view in the center?

 

[jehutyy]

Yep the novnc window, the window I can open with the top-right button

 

[Dominic]

To know exactly which layouts correspond to which GUI entries, please try the following two commands

cat /usr/share/pve-manager/js/pvemanagerlib.js | grep French
cat /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm | grep fr-be -C3

Setting the keyboard layout specifically for one VM (in this example with ID 100) might be helpful, too. To do so, use

qm set 100 --keyboard fr-ca

The kvm process should get the layout as parameter which you can verify with

qm showcmd 100 | egrep "\-k "

I'll have to do some research about french keyboard layouts. Looking at the outputs, do you notice something strange?

 

[jehutyy]

root@pve:~# cat /usr/share/pve-manager/js/pvemanagerlib.js | grep French
        fr: 'French',
    'fr-be': 'French (Belgium)',
    'fr-ca': 'French (Canada)',
    'fr-ch': 'French (Swiss)',
root@pve:~# cat /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm | grep fr-be -C3
    'fi'     => ['Finnish', 'fi', 'qwerty/fi-latin1.kmap.gz', 'fi', 'nodeadkeys'],
    #'fo'     => ['Faroe Islands', 'fo', ???, 'fo', 'nodeadkeys'],
    'fr'     => ['French', 'fr', 'azerty/fr-latin1.kmap.gz', 'fr', 'nodeadkeys'],
    'fr-be'  => ['Belgium-French', 'fr-be', 'azerty/be2-latin1.kmap.gz', 'be', 'nodeadkeys'],
    'fr-ca'  => ['Canada-French', 'fr-ca', 'qwerty/cf.kmap.gz', 'ca', 'fr-legacy'],
    'fr-ch'  => ['Swiss-French', 'fr-ch', 'qwertz/fr_CH-latin1.kmap.gz', 'ch', 'fr_nodeadkeys'],
    #'hr'     => ['Croatia', 'hr', 'qwertz/croat.kmap.gz', 'hr', ??], # latin2?
root@pve:~#

qm set command doesn't seems to apply correctly (i.e when in vm wrong layout is active).
qm showcmd shows that en-us is applied.

 

[Dominic]

qm set should write into the the VM configuration. This should later be passed to the KVM/Qemu command.

Does qm set report something like update VM 100: -keyboard fr?
What is the output of

qm config VMID

after you try to set the keyboard layout using qm set?

 

[Miguelito]

qm set should write into the the VM configuration. This should later be passed to the KVM/Qemu command.

Does qm set report something like update VM 100: -keyboard fr?
What is the output of

qm config VMID

after you try to set the keyboard layout using qm set?

Totally solved it for me, but without the colon:

qm set 100 -keyboard da

This gave me danish keyboard on the virtual machine with id 100