Sean,
This is how I use that option:
[user@host /opt]# cat german.json
{
qemu_extra_opts: "-k de"
}
You can add the qemu_extra_opts line to a VM JSON file or apply the above via
vmadm update afterwards.
Best regards,
Peter
> Am 08.03.2016 um 18:44 schrieb TRITONIA SOLUTIONS LIMITED
> <[email protected]>:
>
> 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.
> From: TRITONIA SOLUTIONS LIMITED
> Sent: 04 March 2016 22:06
> To: [email protected]
> <mailto:[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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