Check you have selected the french keymap in virt-manager (see attached picture)
** Attachment added: "keymap.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1863601/+attachment/5330070/+files/keymap.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1863601 Title: unable to type "|" character in french keyboard. Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Unable to type "|" character when using french keyboard. It is displaying "<" instead of "|" while pressing AltGr+6 from my keyboard. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1863601/+subscriptions