Hello Jochen,

Thanks for your report, we will fix this for the next version.  The
reason that the layout is not used is that it is just a guess (albeit
correct in this case) on the part of the software.

Regards,

Michael

Jochen Roderburg wrote:
> Since several VirtualBox versions now the key "3" on my german  
> keyboard is not working in a german Windows 2000 system guest on a  
> Linux host. I have seen numerous similar problems reported with other  
> non-US keyboards, but so far no solution.
> 
> More Details:
> 
> On the Linux host I have a Xorg 6.9 X-Server with the following  
> options related to the keyboard:
> 
>      Option "XkbRules"   "xfree86"
>      Option "XkbModel"   "pc105"
>      Option "XkbLayout"  "de"
>      Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
>      Option "XkbCompat"  ""
> 
> In the VirtualBox log files I have:
> 
> Your keyboard layout does not appear to fully supported by VirtualBox ....
> The correct table for your layout is:
> "^\xb0","1!","2\"","3\xb6","4$","5%","6&","7/","8(","9)","0=","\xdf?","'`",
> "qQ","wW","eE","rR","tT","zZ","uU","iI","oO","pP","\xfc\xdc","+*",
> "aA","sS","dD","fF","gG","hH","jJ","kK","lL","\xf6\xd6","\xe4\xc4","#'",
> "yY","xX","cC","vV","bB","nN","mM",",;",".:","-_","<>","\x0\x0","\x0\x0"
> 
> Very strange. If the system knows that this is the correct keyboard  
> layout then why does it not use it ????


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