"qwerty" keyboard layout always

[Philippe Schelté]

On the host the keyboard layout is in "azerty". When I install debian, even if I set the keyboard layout to map "azerty" the layout remains "qwerty".

Host

up-to-date Debian etch virtualbox-2.0.4

# locale -a C fran�ais french fr_FR fr_FR@euro fr_FR.iso88591 fr_FR.iso885915@euro fr_FR.utf8 POSIX

GUEST

debian etch up-to-date

# locale -a C fran�ais french fr_FR fr_FR@euro fr_FR.iso88591 fr_FR.iso885915@euro fr_FR.utf8 POSIX

[Michael Thayer]

You have to set the keyboard layout in the guest as well. The guest doesn't know anything about the host, and it just sees keyboard scan codes.

[Philippe Schelté]

Sorry, in fact, I have of course set the "azerty" keyboard layout in the guest, but I have tested wmvare and I have the same behaviour, then I've probably find something interesting; I managed my host server from a VNC session, this could explain that this is not fully support by both virtualbox and vmware.

VNC Virtualbox

linux/windows ("azerty") =====> debian host ("azerty") ============> debian guest ("qwerty")

Regards

Philippe

[Michael Thayer]

Try using the VNC viewer on the VNC host (i.e. "linux/windows" in your diagramme) with a US keyboard layout. Many VNC viewers can't cope with other layouts. (Feel free to post a comment saying whether this solved the problem for you).