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Cole Robinson | 3 Nov 20:57
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Re: Error setting up graphics device:list index out of range

Frederik Himpe wrote:
> On ma, 2008-11-03 at 11:41 -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
>   
>> Frederik Himpe wrote:
>>     
>>> [Sorry for multiposting, I send this to the wrong mailing list the first
>>> time...]
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>>> When I try to create a new KVM VM x86_64, os variant Ubuntu Hardy, it 
>>> fails at the end with this message:
>>>
>>> Error setting up graphics device:list index out of range
>>>       
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>   
>> Hi, thanks for the report. Definitely a bug on our side.
>> We try to determine the host machines keyboard mapping
>> so we can set a default guest keymap, but out parsing
>> code isn't careful enough.
>>
>> Can you post the contents of /etc/sysconfig/keyboard so
>> we can try to fix it properly?
>>     
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> Aha, great, thank you for the help.
>
> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard 
> KEYBOARD=be
> KEYTABLE=be2-latin1
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Frederik Himpe | 4 Nov 11:57
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Re: Error setting up graphics device:list index out of range

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:57:21PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:

> > $ cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard 
> > KEYBOARD=be
> > KEYTABLE=be2-latin1
> 
> Okay, this should work fine now upstream:
> 
> http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virtinst--devel?cs=bd2ec3b7b815

Thanks. I applied this patch, and the error is now gone. However, it
seems the keyboard is not working correctly in a new virtual machine. I
start up the Mandriva boot.iso file to do a network installation. In the first
steps of the net install cd, the installer expects US keyboard layout
(it only asks what type of keyboard you have later once the installation
GUI has been downloaded and started).

If I try to enter numerical characters 1234567890 using the keys above
the alphanumeric part of the keyboard (and typing as if I had a US
keyboard instead of a Belgian one), I get k23b5s7890. For some reason,
the 1, 4 and 6 are not working correctly.

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Daniel P. Berrange | 4 Nov 22:22
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Re: Error setting up graphics device:list index out of range

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:57:00AM +0100, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:57:21PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> 
> > > $ cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard 
> > > KEYBOARD=be
> > > KEYTABLE=be2-latin1
> > 
> > Okay, this should work fine now upstream:
> > 
> > http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virtinst--devel?cs=bd2ec3b7b815
> 
> Thanks. I applied this patch, and the error is now gone. However, it
> seems the keyboard is not working correctly in a new virtual machine. I
> start up the Mandriva boot.iso file to do a network installation. In the first
> steps of the net install cd, the installer expects US keyboard layout
> (it only asks what type of keyboard you have later once the installation
> GUI has been downloaded and started).
> 
> If I try to enter numerical characters 1234567890 using the keys above
> the alphanumeric part of the keyboard (and typing as if I had a US
> keyboard instead of a Belgian one), I get k23b5s7890. For some reason,
> the 1, 4 and 6 are not working correctly.

virt-manager tries to configure the guest keymap by mapping from the
keytable in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, to the keymaps available in
QEMU. Check the running 'qemu' process to verify that there is a 
'-k' command line arg with the appropriate keymap set.

With a newer enough KVM, and new enough GTK-VNC there is a protocol
extension which passes raw scancodes across, avoiding this whole
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Frederik Himpe | 4 Nov 22:58
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Re: Error setting up graphics device:list index out of range

On di, 2008-11-04 at 21:22 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:57:00AM +0100, Frederik Himpe wrote:

> > If I try to enter numerical characters 1234567890 using the keys above
> > the alphanumeric part of the keyboard (and typing as if I had a US
> > keyboard instead of a Belgian one), I get k23b5s7890. For some reason,
> > the 1, 4 and 6 are not working correctly.
> 
> virt-manager tries to configure the guest keymap by mapping from the
> keytable in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, to the keymaps available in
> QEMU. Check the running 'qemu' process to verify that there is a 
> '-k' command line arg with the appropriate keymap set.

/usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc -m 512 -smp 1 -name Cooker -monitor pty
-no-reboot -boot d -drive
file=/home/frederik/VM/cooker.img,if=ide,index=0
-drive
file=/home/frederik/Mandriva/cooker/x86_64/install/images/boot.iso,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2
-net nic,macaddr=54:52:00:38:64:98,vlan=0 -net tap,fd=12,script=,vlan=0,ifname=vnet0 -serial
pty -parallel none -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -k fr-be -soundhw es1370

That seems right at first sight.

Also in a windows virtual machine, where the Windows keyboard is set to
Belgian, this problem does not happen. Only in this installer which
expects us-qwerty.

> With a newer enough KVM, and new enough GTK-VNC there is a protocol
> extension which passes raw scancodes across, avoiding this whole
> keymap mess - just need to configure keymap in guest OS to match the
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Frederik Himpe | 4 Nov 22:10
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Re: Error setting up graphics device:list index out of range

On di, 2008-11-04 at 11:57 +0100, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:57:21PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> 
> > > $ cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard 
> > > KEYBOARD=be
> > > KEYTABLE=be2-latin1
> > 
> > Okay, this should work fine now upstream:
> > 
> > http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virtinst--devel?cs=bd2ec3b7b815
> 
> Thanks. I applied this patch, and the error is now gone. However, it
> seems the keyboard is not working correctly in a new virtual machine. I
> start up the Mandriva boot.iso file to do a network installation. In the first
> steps of the net install cd, the installer expects US keyboard layout
> (it only asks what type of keyboard you have later once the installation
> GUI has been downloaded and started).
> 
> If I try to enter numerical characters 1234567890 using the keys above
> the alphanumeric part of the keyboard (and typing as if I had a US
> keyboard instead of a Belgian one), I get k23b5s7890. For some reason,
> the 1, 4 and 6 are not working correctly.

Could this be a bug in gtk-vnc? However, with previous versions of
virt-manager and the same version of gtk-vnc, this was working fine I
think.

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