Colemak keyboard layout not supported -> not a bug, but layout added anyway (after 4.2 series)

[Adam DiCarlo]

I use the Colemak keyboard layout (​http://colemak.com/). Inside of virtual machines, my keyboard types as if it were set to regular US QWERTY.

My VirtualBox logs always show this warning:

Your keyboard layout does not appear to be fully supported by
VirtualBox. If you would like to help us improve the product,
please submit a bug report and attach this logfile.
(Note: please ignore this if you are using a custom layout.)

It also shows "The correct table for your layout", so I will attach a log file.

[Adam DiCarlo]

Log file showing "correct table layout" for my keyboard layout (Colemak)

[Michael Thayer]

You have to set your keyboard layout in the guest operating systems you install too, as they only see which physical key you have pressed and don't know what letters the host maps to those keys. (That was a simplification.) I have added the Colemak layout, although this will probably never be needed as the layouts are only used as fall-backs for people using very non-standard X servers.

[Adam DiCarlo]

OK, I wasn't sure if I was supposed to need to set it in the guest OS. I guess it makes sense that that is required.

And though I suppose it won't affect me (using standard X), it's pretty awesome that you went and added Colemak.

Thanks for the quick response!!

P.S. VirtualBox rocks :)