From owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Sat Apr 8 20:07:15 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 375DBD35B71 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2017 20:07:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from alto.onthenet.com.au (alto.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.68.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDC423C9 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2017 20:07:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from iredmail.onthenet.com.au (iredmail.onthenet.com.au [203.13.68.150]) by alto.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E02ED20ACE39 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2017 05:57:11 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost (iredmail.onthenet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by iredmail.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE9C8280A36 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2017 05:57:11 +1000 (AEST) X-Amavis-Modified: Mail body modified (using disclaimer) - iredmail.onthenet.com.au Received: from iredmail.onthenet.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (iredmail.onthenet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id j_Tf9XNkPkLo for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2017 05:57:11 +1000 (AEST) Received: from Peters-MacBook-Pro-2.local (c-50-184-135-69.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [50.184.135.69]) by iredmail.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0401E280910; Sun, 9 Apr 2017 05:57:09 +1000 (AEST) Subject: Re: bhyve fbuf and keys on the numeric part of the keyboard To: =?UTF-8?Q?Christian_St=c3=a6rk?= References: <83bde583-5660-ad84-a942-c0da578f33d9@borderworlds.dk> From: Peter Grehan Cc: "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" Message-ID: Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 12:57:35 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <83bde583-5660-ad84-a942-c0da578f33d9@borderworlds.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=XKlAcUpE c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=A6CF0fG5TOl4vs6YHvqXgw==:117 a=ZMguiOAsC5immlfEDy0HCA==:17 a=EA5itrwUPoEA:10 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=AzvcPWV-tVgA:10 a=xwjnfRlhgTf7U6licXUA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 wl=host:3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 20:07:15 -0000 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.