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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