Fedora xen - Nov 2009 - Fedora 12: virt-install does not set graphical console keymap automatically for Xen guests

Hello,

I''ve been playing with Xen stuff on Fedora 12 host/dom0, and I noticed
the Xen PV guest graphical console (vfb) keymap is not set up
automatically anymore, like it was with RHEL5 version of
virt-install/virt-manager tools.

I opened bugzilla entry about this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533707

-- Pasi

On 11/08/2009 12:22 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I''ve been playing with Xen stuff on Fedora 12 host/dom0, and I
noticed
> the Xen PV guest graphical console (vfb) keymap is not set up
> automatically anymore, like it was with RHEL5 version of
> virt-install/virt-manager tools.
> 
> I opened bugzilla entry about this:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533707
> 
In Fedora 11/12 we carry a virtinst patch which skips setting the keymap. This
was intended for qemu/kvm only, since newer versions support a VNC extension
which basically allows passing the host keymapping through to the guest.

Sounds like we need to be smarter about this and still generate a keymap for
xen.

Thanks,
Cole

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 08:46:52AM -0500, Cole Robinson
wrote:
> On 11/08/2009 12:22 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I''ve been playing with Xen stuff on Fedora 12 host/dom0, and
I noticed
> > the Xen PV guest graphical console (vfb) keymap is not set up
> > automatically anymore, like it was with RHEL5 version of
> > virt-install/virt-manager tools.
> > 
> > I opened bugzilla entry about this:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533707
> > 
> 
> In Fedora 11/12 we carry a virtinst patch which skips setting the keymap.
This
> was intended for qemu/kvm only, since newer versions support a VNC
extension
> which basically allows passing the host keymapping through to the guest.
> 
> Sounds like we need to be smarter about this and still generate a keymap
for xen.
I''m fairly sure Xen is also using a new enough QEMU for the VNC
extension
since it has been in QEMU for a long time now.

Daniel
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On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 01:47:46PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange
wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 08:46:52AM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> > On 11/08/2009 12:22 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I''ve been playing with Xen stuff on Fedora 12 host/dom0,
and I noticed
> > > the Xen PV guest graphical console (vfb) keymap is not set up
> > > automatically anymore, like it was with RHEL5 version of
> > > virt-install/virt-manager tools.
> > > 
> > > I opened bugzilla entry about this:
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533707
> > > 
> > 
> > In Fedora 11/12 we carry a virtinst patch which skips setting the
keymap. This
> > was intended for qemu/kvm only, since newer versions support a VNC
extension
> > which basically allows passing the host keymapping through to the
guest.
> > 
> > Sounds like we need to be smarter about this and still generate a
keymap for xen.
> 
> I''m fairly sure Xen is also using a new enough QEMU for the VNC
extension
> since it has been in QEMU for a long time now.
> 
Well.. I''ve been using/testing with xen-3.4.1-5 in Fedora 12.

Guest console keymap isn''t correct before I edit the guest xen
configuration
and specify keymap=''fi''.

Do you know what QEMU version has the required VNC extension? 
Or could this be virt-viewer issue?

-- Pasi