Hi,

I am using VNC to access some Windows vm's and the default keyboard layout is 
"en-us" whereas I need to use "en-gb". I can see the "-k en-us" option in the 
vm.startvm.log but cannot find the appropriate vmadm json value to change it.

I know I could use RDP but that restricts what you can do.

Sean Weatherall.
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From: TRITONIA SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Sent: 04 March 2016 22:06
To: [email protected]
Subject: Windows on KVM differencing disk (golden image)

Hi,

I've been using KVM on Linux (ProxMox VE) for some years and was interested to 
try it out on SmartOS as wanted to use KVM + ZFS (although newer versions of 
ProxMox do support ZFS on Linux). Using qcow2 files on linux, and VHDX files on 
Hyper-V, you can create differencing disks so that you have a single 'parent 
image' which is shared between all of your vm instances (saves a lot of space 
as your obviously only storing changes for each vm).

I created a custom KVM image from a sysprep'd Windows Server 2012 R2 x64 vm and 
imported it locally as in the wiki. From that I was able to generate new vm 
instances but I assume that the zvol created for each new instance is not a 
clone of the original zvol (from the golden image) and thus each new vm is 
getting a copy of the whole original zvol?

I'm just interested to know if there is a method using a cloned snapshot of the 
original zvol that means I can save all this duplicated space? or maybe I am 
just misunderstanding what imgadm actually does?

PS: I can't really afford the memory to enable dedup on the zones pool.

Many thanks and sorry for being a novice...

Sean Weatherall



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