KVM Guest keymap issue

KVM Guest keymap issue

[Matej Mailing]

Dear list,

I have a problem with a Windows XP guest that I connect to via VNC and
is using "sl" keymap (option -k sl).

The guest is Windows XP and the problematic characters are s, c and z
with caron... when I type them via VNC, they are not printed at all in
virtual system... I have checked the file /usr/share/kvm/keymaps/sl
and it seems that it contains different codes than I get when doing
showkey --ascii on the host machine (running Ubuntu 12.04). I have
tried to change the KVM's keymap file 'sl' with the codes I get from
showkey, but they are still not printed in virtual system to which I
am connected via VNC...

I am totally lost with this issue, thanks for your time and ideas.

Best regards,
Matej

Re: KVM Guest keymap issue

[Markus Armbruster]

Not specific to KVM, adding qemu-devel.

Matej Mailing <mailing@tam.si> writes:

> Dear list,
>
> I have a problem with a Windows XP guest that I connect to via VNC and
> is using "sl" keymap (option -k sl).
>
> The guest is Windows XP and the problematic characters are s, c and z
> with caron... when I type them via VNC, they are not printed at all in
> virtual system... I have checked the file /usr/share/kvm/keymaps/sl
> and it seems that it contains different codes than I get when doing
> showkey --ascii on the host machine (running Ubuntu 12.04). I have
> tried to change the KVM's keymap file 'sl' with the codes I get from
> showkey, but they are still not printed in virtual system to which I
> am connected via VNC...
>
> I am totally lost with this issue, thanks for your time and ideas.

Required reading for anyone struggling with virtual keyboards:

https://www.berrange.com/posts/2010/07/04/more-than-you-or-i-ever-wanted-to-know-about-virtual-keyboard-handling/

Re: KVM Guest keymap issue

[Matej Mailing]

I am still pretty lost here, also after reading your link which shed a
light to many things.

Every suggestion and idea is very welcome!
Thanks,
Matej

2013/9/24 Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>:
> Not specific to KVM, adding qemu-devel.
>
> Matej Mailing <mailing@tam.si> writes:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I have a problem with a Windows XP guest that I connect to via VNC and
>> is using "sl" keymap (option -k sl).
>>
>> The guest is Windows XP and the problematic characters are s, c and z
>> with caron... when I type them via VNC, they are not printed at all in
>> virtual system... I have checked the file /usr/share/kvm/keymaps/sl
>> and it seems that it contains different codes than I get when doing
>> showkey --ascii on the host machine (running Ubuntu 12.04). I have
>> tried to change the KVM's keymap file 'sl' with the codes I get from
>> showkey, but they are still not printed in virtual system to which I
>> am connected via VNC...
>>
>> I am totally lost with this issue, thanks for your time and ideas.
>
> Required reading for anyone struggling with virtual keyboards:
>
> https://www.berrange.com/posts/2010/07/04/more-than-you-or-i-ever-wanted-to-know-about-virtual-keyboard-handling/

Re: KVM Guest keymap issue

[Matej Mailing]

Hi,

the strange thing is that all other keys and combinations work except
those ccaron, Ccaron, scaron and Scaron, zcaron and ZCaron don't. In
our language there are many words containing those chars and I really
need to have them working.

When looking at the sl keymap file, those codes, even for all other
chars that I type with showkey --ascii, are different than the showkey
outputs, but they work (except those mentioned above).

Now I am totally confused on how could those that work, work ...

Thanks for any enlightenments in advance :)
Matej

2013/9/26 Matej Mailing <mailing@tam.si>:
> I am still pretty lost here, also after reading your link which shed a
> light to many things.
>
> Every suggestion and idea is very welcome!
> Thanks,
> Matej
>
> 2013/9/24 Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>:
>> Not specific to KVM, adding qemu-devel.
>>
>> Matej Mailing <mailing@tam.si> writes:
>>
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> I have a problem with a Windows XP guest that I connect to via VNC and
>>> is using "sl" keymap (option -k sl).
>>>
>>> The guest is Windows XP and the problematic characters are s, c and z
>>> with caron... when I type them via VNC, they are not printed at all in
>>> virtual system... I have checked the file /usr/share/kvm/keymaps/sl
>>> and it seems that it contains different codes than I get when doing
>>> showkey --ascii on the host machine (running Ubuntu 12.04). I have
>>> tried to change the KVM's keymap file 'sl' with the codes I get from
>>> showkey, but they are still not printed in virtual system to which I
>>> am connected via VNC...
>>>
>>> I am totally lost with this issue, thanks for your time and ideas.
>>
>> Required reading for anyone struggling with virtual keyboards:
>>
>> https://www.berrange.com/posts/2010/07/04/more-than-you-or-i-ever-wanted-to-know-about-virtual-keyboard-handling/

Re: KVM Guest keymap issue

[Andreas Färber]

Hi,

Am 08.10.2013 11:07, schrieb Matej Mailing:
> the strange thing is that all other keys and combinations work except
> those ccaron, Ccaron, scaron and Scaron, zcaron and ZCaron don't.

As mentioned on IRC, my colleague had sent a patch to add ccaron, scaron
and zcaron support for VNC:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/270143/

Looks as if that hasn't been picked up yet, other patches in that series
have unresolved review comments. Jan?

Regards,
Andreas

P.S. Please don't top-post, that makes it harder to understand for added
people.

> In
> our language there are many words containing those chars and I really
> need to have them working.
> 
> When looking at the sl keymap file, those codes, even for all other
> chars that I type with showkey --ascii, are different than the showkey
> outputs, but they work (except those mentioned above).
> 
> Now I am totally confused on how could those that work, work ...
> 
> Thanks for any enlightenments in advance :)
> Matej
> 
> 2013/9/26 Matej Mailing <mailing@tam.si>:
>> I am still pretty lost here, also after reading your link which shed a
>> light to many things.
>>
>> Every suggestion and idea is very welcome!
>> Thanks,
>> Matej
>>
>> 2013/9/24 Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>:
>>> Not specific to KVM, adding qemu-devel.
>>>
>>> Matej Mailing <mailing@tam.si> writes:
>>>
>>>> Dear list,
>>>>
>>>> I have a problem with a Windows XP guest that I connect to via VNC and
>>>> is using "sl" keymap (option -k sl).
>>>>
>>>> The guest is Windows XP and the problematic characters are s, c and z
>>>> with caron... when I type them via VNC, they are not printed at all in
>>>> virtual system... I have checked the file /usr/share/kvm/keymaps/sl
>>>> and it seems that it contains different codes than I get when doing
>>>> showkey --ascii on the host machine (running Ubuntu 12.04). I have
>>>> tried to change the KVM's keymap file 'sl' with the codes I get from
>>>> showkey, but they are still not printed in virtual system to which I
>>>> am connected via VNC...
>>>>
>>>> I am totally lost with this issue, thanks for your time and ideas.
>>>
>>> Required reading for anyone struggling with virtual keyboards:
>>>
>>> https://www.berrange.com/posts/2010/07/04/more-than-you-or-i-ever-wanted-to-know-about-virtual-keyboard-handling/
> 


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Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM Guest keymap issue

[Jan Krupa]

On 10/08/2013 05:51 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 08.10.2013 11:07, schrieb Matej Mailing:
>> the strange thing is that all other keys and combinations work except
>> those ccaron, Ccaron, scaron and Scaron, zcaron and ZCaron don't.
> 
> As mentioned on IRC, my colleague had sent a patch to add ccaron, scaron
> and zcaron support for VNC:
> 
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/270143/
> 
> Looks as if that hasn't been picked up yet, other patches in that series
> have unresolved review comments. Jan?

Sorry I was on vacation for the past few weeks. I'm back and I'll be
sending updated patch later this week.

I also added all missing key symbols already used in all keymaps in QEMU
which should fix these problems. I'll send this in separate patch.

Jan

> Regards,
> Andreas
> 
> P.S. Please don't top-post, that makes it harder to understand for added
> people.
> 
>> In
>> our language there are many words containing those chars and I really
>> need to have them working.
>>
>> When looking at the sl keymap file, those codes, even for all other
>> chars that I type with showkey --ascii, are different than the showkey
>> outputs, but they work (except those mentioned above).
>>
>> Now I am totally confused on how could those that work, work ...
>>
>> Thanks for any enlightenments in advance :)
>> Matej
>>
>> 2013/9/26 Matej Mailing <mailing@tam.si>:
>>> I am still pretty lost here, also after reading your link which shed a
>>> light to many things.
>>>
>>> Every suggestion and idea is very welcome!
>>> Thanks,
>>> Matej
>>>
>>> 2013/9/24 Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>:
>>>> Not specific to KVM, adding qemu-devel.
>>>>
>>>> Matej Mailing <mailing@tam.si> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear list,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a problem with a Windows XP guest that I connect to via VNC and
>>>>> is using "sl" keymap (option -k sl).
>>>>>
>>>>> The guest is Windows XP and the problematic characters are s, c and z
>>>>> with caron... when I type them via VNC, they are not printed at all in
>>>>> virtual system... I have checked the file /usr/share/kvm/keymaps/sl
>>>>> and it seems that it contains different codes than I get when doing
>>>>> showkey --ascii on the host machine (running Ubuntu 12.04). I have
>>>>> tried to change the KVM's keymap file 'sl' with the codes I get from
>>>>> showkey, but they are still not printed in virtual system to which I
>>>>> am connected via VNC...
>>>>>
>>>>> I am totally lost with this issue, thanks for your time and ideas.
>>>>
>>>> Required reading for anyone struggling with virtual keyboards:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.berrange.com/posts/2010/07/04/more-than-you-or-i-ever-wanted-to-know-about-virtual-keyboard-handling/

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM Guest keymap issue

[Matej Mailing]

If I could help with some further testing, please send me more
information and I will be glad to help.

Thanks,
Matej

2013/10/8 Jan Krupa <JKrupa@suse.com>:
> On 10/08/2013 05:51 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am 08.10.2013 11:07, schrieb Matej Mailing:
>>> the strange thing is that all other keys and combinations work except
>>> those ccaron, Ccaron, scaron and Scaron, zcaron and ZCaron don't.
>>
>> As mentioned on IRC, my colleague had sent a patch to add ccaron, scaron
>> and zcaron support for VNC:
>>
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/270143/
>>
>> Looks as if that hasn't been picked up yet, other patches in that series
>> have unresolved review comments. Jan?
>
> Sorry I was on vacation for the past few weeks. I'm back and I'll be
> sending updated patch later this week.
>
> I also added all missing key symbols already used in all keymaps in QEMU
> which should fix these problems. I'll send this in separate patch.
>
> Jan
>
>> Regards,
>> Andreas
>>
>> P.S. Please don't top-post, that makes it harder to understand for added
>> people.
>>
>>> In
>>> our language there are many words containing those chars and I really
>>> need to have them working.
>>>
>>> When looking at the sl keymap file, those codes, even for all other
>>> chars that I type with showkey --ascii, are different than the showkey
>>> outputs, but they work (except those mentioned above).
>>>
>>> Now I am totally confused on how could those that work, work ...
>>>
>>> Thanks for any enlightenments in advance :)
>>> Matej
>>>
>>> 2013/9/26 Matej Mailing <mailing@tam.si>:
>>>> I am still pretty lost here, also after reading your link which shed a
>>>> light to many things.
>>>>
>>>> Every suggestion and idea is very welcome!
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Matej
>>>>
>>>> 2013/9/24 Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>:
>>>>> Not specific to KVM, adding qemu-devel.
>>>>>
>>>>> Matej Mailing <mailing@tam.si> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear list,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a problem with a Windows XP guest that I connect to via VNC and
>>>>>> is using "sl" keymap (option -k sl).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The guest is Windows XP and the problematic characters are s, c and z
>>>>>> with caron... when I type them via VNC, they are not printed at all in
>>>>>> virtual system... I have checked the file /usr/share/kvm/keymaps/sl
>>>>>> and it seems that it contains different codes than I get when doing
>>>>>> showkey --ascii on the host machine (running Ubuntu 12.04). I have
>>>>>> tried to change the KVM's keymap file 'sl' with the codes I get from
>>>>>> showkey, but they are still not printed in virtual system to which I
>>>>>> am connected via VNC...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am totally lost with this issue, thanks for your time and ideas.
>>>>>
>>>>> Required reading for anyone struggling with virtual keyboards:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.berrange.com/posts/2010/07/04/more-than-you-or-i-ever-wanted-to-know-about-virtual-keyboard-handling/