[X2go-dev] VirtualBox or KVM and x2go from Mac

[Florian Effenberger]

Hi Neil,

2011/1/7 Neil W. Hunt <nwhunt at vsticorp.com>:

> sorry for the delay in response, or for the double-post if someone's already
> help you solved your issue, but I thought I'd chime in as I may have had
> something similar. I have KVM running on an Ubuntu host and connect to it

thanks a lot! No worries, I'm also a bit behind my inbox right now. :)

> via virt-manager. At home on my Mac, I connect to it either directly via
> X11/SSH, or connect to my desktop via NX/x2go at work, and then to
> virt-manager on that desktop. In each case, the keyboard mapping is off by
> default when I type on a Mac - anything typed into the console view in
> virt-manager is mapped incorrectly. I have a workaround and that's to set
> each VM's keyboard mapping directly. If you run
> virsh edit YourVMName
>
> then set the node <graphics> with an additional element keymap to 'en-us'
> like so:
> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' listen='127.0.0.1'
> keymap='en-us'/>
>
> and then all my mac keys worked fine.

Do you have a similar solution for VirtualBox? We've switched to
VirtualBox for the moment, but I have the same issues here :/

Thanks,
Florian