Comments on: More than you (or I) ever wanted to know about virtual keyboard handling

By: Daniel P. Berrangé » Blog Archive » Injecting fake keyboard events to KVM guests via libvirt

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:58:37 +0000

[...] written before about how virtualization causes pain wrt keyboard handling and about the huge number of scancode/keycode sets you have to worry about. Following on from that [...]

By: [M]etabrain [E]ntry [L]og » Blog Archive » The last few days have been good.

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:50:15 +0000

[...] quick notes to myself: try out lilypond and frescobaldi for Chris, Daniel Berrange wrote a gorgeous overview of virtual keyboard handling that I quite enjoyed – it lays out nicely how the codes get passed from layer to layer, and [...]

By: Simo Sorce

Simo Sorce — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:04:30 +0000

Great post.
Although most of us give things for granted when they just work it is always very nice to know what hoops developers have to jump through to make that happen!
Thanks you.

By: Daniel Berrange

Daniel Berrange — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:53:48 +0000

Setting the host OS keymap should never have any effect. Setting the QEMU keymap used to be required, but should never be set in Fedora 12 or RHEL-6. When using VNC, with a GTK-VNC based client, you should only ever need to configure the guest OS keymap to match the keymap of the OS running your VNC client. If this doesn’t work, please file a bug report, since all our future work is predicated on this setup operating correctly.

By: Matěj Cepl

Matěj Cepl — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:47:43 +0000

It is nice and handy, but apparently the only way how to make czech keyboard (my native locale on Linux) to be present in Fedora 12 running inside of RHEL6 host, is to set hosts keyboard to USA and guest’s one to CZE. Seems like this is still not working completely.

By: Daniel P. Berrangé » Blog Archive » A summary of scan code & key codes sets used in the PC virtualization stack

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:53:39 +0000

[...] learning about virtual keyboard handling for my previous post, I spent alot of time researching just what scan code & key code sets are used at each point in [...]