CentOS - Jan 2019 - CentOS 7.6 1810 vs. VirtualBox : bug with keyboard layout selection

Le 04/01/2019 ? 09:14, Akemi Yagi a ?crit?:
> There are known issues with VirtualBox and RHEL (therefore CentOS) 7.6.
> 
> (1) https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=90103
> (2) https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=90267
> 
> (1) is about the GuestAdditions, so this should not affect the
> installation. But you were most likely hit by (2). All the details are
> in that forum thread. In short, this is caused by a bug in the 7.6
> kernel (see also https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=15570 ). It is
> possible that the next update to the kernel has the fix but this
> remains to be seen.
OK, thanks for the clarification. Looks like this is it.

<rant> And I'm glad to begin chapter 2 of my Introduction To Linux
with
something like "Well, folks, unfortunately you can't select a custom
keyboard layout in VirtualBox because the enterprise class Linux we
talked about in chapter 1 has a bug in the kernel so for now the default
keyboard layout will have to be sufficient.</rant>

:o)

Niki

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On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 09:42:55AM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs
wrote:
> <rant> And I'm glad to begin chapter 2 of my Introduction To
Linux with
> something like "Well, folks, unfortunately you can't select a
custom
> keyboard layout in VirtualBox because the enterprise class Linux we
> talked about in chapter 1 has a bug in the kernel so for now the default
> keyboard layout will have to be sufficient.</rant>
I suppose this shows you how little Red Hat cares about using
VirtualBox (product by their competition).

If I were running a VM on a linux system, I'd probably use
KVM/qemu/libvirt. I'm sure that was exhaustively tested.

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Le 04/01/2019 ? 14:42, Jonathan Billings a ?crit?:
> If I were running a VM on a linux system, I'd probably use
> KVM/qemu/libvirt. I'm sure that was exhaustively tested.
This is what I normally use.

My only use for VirtualBox is making screenshots of the installer, and
sometimes for a quick test, because it's easy to make a VM clone in a
single click.

Niki

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On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 5:43 AM Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 09:42:55AM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> > <rant> And I'm glad to begin chapter 2 of my Introduction To
Linux with
> > something like "Well, folks, unfortunately you can't select a
custom
> > keyboard layout in VirtualBox because the enterprise class Linux we
> > talked about in chapter 1 has a bug in the kernel so for now the
default
> > keyboard layout will have to be sufficient.</rant>
>
> I suppose this shows you how little Red Hat cares about using
> VirtualBox (product by their competition).
>
> If I were running a VM on a linux system, I'd probably use
> KVM/qemu/libvirt. I'm sure that was exhaustively tested.
You guys are overreacting. :)

The bug was in a patch applied to the upstream (kernel.org) kernel
version 4.17. Therefore any distribution running this kernel was
affected -- including Fedora and SuSE. Red Hat backports upstream
patches and this particular one was one of them.

By the way, there is a nicely written article about VirtualBox at RH:

https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/hello-world/#virtualbox

along with other VM technologies.

Akemi