Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:05:34 +0200 From: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> To: Tobias Oberstein <tobias.oberstein@tavendo.de> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VBox 4.0.4 testing : keyboard layout issue Message-ID: <977389f91bc1fbdb0c9a85db243e210c@bluelife.at> In-Reply-To: <634914A010D0B943A035D226786325D422B64120E5@EXVMBX020-12.exch020.serverdata.net> References: <634914A010D0B943A035D226786325D422B64120E5@EXVMBX020-12.exch020.serverdata.net>
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:46:23 -0700, Tobias Oberstein wrote: > I am testing > > https://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port-r1273.tar.gz > > on FreeBSD 8.2 amd64. > > So far, both a Windows XP SP2 (vdi imported from other machine) and a > Ubuntu 10.10 (fresh install) guest seems to work great. Both with VT > etc enabled (the host is a Core7 Intel). > > I've built only headless (only VNC and VDE support in the ports > config) and start stuff > > VBoxHeadless -n -s buildslave_winxp_vc2010 > > and access from Windows with TightVNC or VNC Viewer (Real VNC). > > Problem is with keyboard map: it is weird .. I am using a german > keyboard, y and z are swapped, but the real annoyance are "funny" > chars like {/$- etc etc. (it's not like the "usual" mixup when running > german kbd with US map .. ) Sounds a bit weird. We had some similar reports where VNC seems to filter a few of the keys but nothing yet about mixing them up. > I tried to config the port with NLS .. but it says that required Qt > which I don't have/want on that machine. I guess that won't help because NLS is for translations of the Qt GUI only. > Am I expected to do s.th. different or is there anything I can do/try? No it should just work but I admit that i haven't tested it for quite a few months. Does it work fine in virtualbox 3.2.x ? Probably it's some upstream bug because they changed quite a lot in that area and it's contributed code. > Anyway .. really nice to have that port, > Tobias > > > libvncserver-0.9.7_2 Provide an easy API to write one's own vnc server > > vde2-2.3.1 User-mode virtual ethernet infrastructure > virtualbox-ose-4.0.4 A general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware > virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.0.4 VirtualBox kernel module for FreeBSD > > sf0# uname -v > FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 17 02:41:51 UTC 2011 > root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/
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