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Qt Virtual machines manager

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Wrong keyboard mapping #21

Closed TuxmAL closed 7 years ago

TuxmAL commented 7 years ago

Opening a Windows XP VM, at logon keyboard mapping is wrong. My physical keyboard is IT_it but keys doesn't match. I cannot type at sign and hash sign ("@ #") and other char are in the wrong position.

F1ash commented 7 years ago

You use a spice or vnc viewer for it?

VNC viewer has not keyboard scan codes interpretation. Maybe it implemented in his library.
SPICE protocol use PC AT scan codes for keyboard // See for: http://philipstorr.id.au/pcbook/book3/scancode.htm

TuxmAL commented 7 years ago

Hmmm.. it seems to me it's SPICE, I use the qt-virt-manager internal viewer, but also the external one, with the same results. Using virt-manager and his viewer I have no keyboard issue at all.

F1ash commented 7 years ago

Look: you must type on QWERTY layout on your physical comp\keyboard and national (or same) layout must be turn on in your remote system.

TuxmAL commented 7 years ago

My physical keyboard matches with the layout expected on the VM. I experimented the same behavoiur also wit a brand new VM with Debian 8. Can I do something to give more info?

F1ash commented 7 years ago

Sorry, physical keyboard layout must be turned on English and remote VM keyboard layout turned on national layout. Key sequence interpretator in Spice-Viewer "understand" only English layout (because uses QKeyEvent).

TuxmAL commented 7 years ago

Thank you, I verified that and it worked, but since I have some issue with hash and at signs (mapped under AltGr on an italian keyboard) I will do some more testing.