[Fedora-xen] Fedora 12 (rawhide) Xen domU works now, minor console keymap issue?

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:04:05PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Kernel 2.6.31-0.203.rc8.git2.fc12.i686.PAE for F12/rawhide domU seems to work
> now on my F11 host with xen-3.4.1-3 + libvirt from F11 updates-testing +
> 2.6.31-rc6 pv_ops dom0 kernel.
> 
> There's a minor issue with domU vfb graphical console keymap though..
> 
> The F11 host has 'fi' (Finnish) keymap, and the F12 domU/guest is also installed 
> with 'fi' keymap.
> 
> All the 'special' keys on the graphical console (virt-viewer) are broken.. 
> I don't really know what the resulting keymap is, but it's pretty weird. 
> Not english, not finnish, not anything I know of.. 
> 
> List of the important characters that are broken:
> * / - _ | ? \ ( )
> 
> Either you can't make them at all, or you have to press totally wrong
> buttons to get them.. so the console is really painful or impossible to use.
> 
> Any ideas how to debug this? Or is non-US even supposed to work?
> 

With help from Markus Armbruster I was able to figure this one out.

The problem is that my Xen guest configuration doesn't have keymap specified
for the guest. 

For some reason the latest virt-install/virt-manager don't set it up
automatically. After doing "virsh edit <guest>" and changing:

<graphics type='vnc' port='5900' autoport='yes'/>
to 
<graphics type='vnc' port='5900' autoport='yes' keymap='fi'/>

guest console keymap/keyboard works as expected.

RHEL5/CentOS5 version of virt-install/virt-manager configure keymap='fi'
automatically.. F11/F12 versions don't do that.

-- Pasi