When creating an RHEL virtual machine under RHEL6 KVM host, why is the keyboard mapped incorrectly?
Issue
- When virt-manager is used to create a virtual machine, the VNC keymap is set to some unknown value by default.
- During the installation of any version of RHEL, the keyboard mapping for most of the keys is incorrect on the vnc display.
- To get the right key mapping one need to enter the immediate right key. i.e. to enter the character "t", one needs to press the "y" key.
- When the VM installation is finished, one can manually edit the guest xml using
virsh edit xxxx
and addkeymap='en-us'
to the<graphics type='vnc'
stanza to resolve this. - How can we fix this issue completely without implementing the above work around to get it corrected during and after the installation?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
- Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager)
- gtk-vnc
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