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Defining the 'keymap' option in libvirt results in the '-k' option being passed through to QEMU [1][2]. This QEMU option has some uses, primarily for users interacting with QEMU via stdin on the text console. However, for users interacting with QEMU via VNC or Spice, like nova users do, it is strongly recommended to never add the "-k" option. Doing so will force QEMU to do keymap conversions which are known to be lossy. This disproportionately affects users with non-US keyboard layouts, who would be better served by relying on the guest OS to manage this. In the long term, we would like to deprecate these options. However, we must do this in three parts. This part allows users to unset the options and warns users who have them set about the side effects. This change is intended to be backported. A future change will fully deprecate the options. Finally, after the deprecation cycle has passed, we can remove these options in their entirety. [1] https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt/blob/v1.2.9-maint/src/qemu/qemu_command.c#L6985-L6986 [2] https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt/blob/v1.2.9-maint/src/qemu/qemu_command.c#L7215-L7216 Change-Id: I6b1d719db0537b0f53768dbb00a5b4d01c85ba3a Related-Bug: #1682020 |
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