Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 12:57:35 -0700 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Christian_St=c3=a6rk?= <xi@borderworlds.dk> Cc: "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bhyve fbuf and keys on the numeric part of the keyboard Message-ID: <dd89ed2e-8606-6caf-20bd-25ad63c6c8f0@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <83bde583-5660-ad84-a942-c0da578f33d9@borderworlds.dk> References: <83bde583-5660-ad84-a942-c0da578f33d9@borderworlds.dk>
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Hi Christian, > After having used bhyve for servers for quite a while, I have just > started using it with the graphical console using vnc a few days ago. > > This stuff is awesome. Having a native solution for virtualization on > FreeBSD is great. > > However, I had some trouble with keyboard mappings and the vnc based > console. I guess that having a non-US keyboard is what causes problems. Yep, that's correct. The VNC client is also part of this, since that's where the mapping from the native keyboard scancodes to the VNC protocol occurs. > The first thing I always do after installing a new operating system is > fetching my ssh public keys via https. I had a hard time finding out how > to type '/' and I never found a way to type '-'. > > I know that this stuff is hard to fix. What I am hoping is, that it > could be easy to add the '/*-+' keys on the numeric part of the keyboard > to the mapping. Those are often helpful and I think they map the same > way on all keyboards. I think that works Ok with a US keyboard and VNCviewer, but will retry to make sure. later, Peter.
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