Re: [Qemu-devel] Moving keymaps -> pc-bios/keymaps

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:44:48AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Anthony Liguori, le Thu 28 May 2009 03:37:44 -0500, a écrit :
> > Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > Could qemu perhaps just use xkb data?
> > 
> > We could but we would probably want to keep it in the tree for Windows
> > and non-X11 targets.
> 
> Yes, of course.  My idea was mostly to get keymaps for free :)

For VNC at least you're better off getting a VNC client that supports
the hardware scancode extension[1], avoiding the need for any of this
horrible keymap conversion in QEMU itself, leaving it entirely to the
guest OS where xkb (or equiv) is indeed used. Not sure what SDL does...

Regards,
Daniel

[1] eg gtk-vnc as found in vinagre, virt-manager, virt-viewer
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