Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/483994 Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/commit/?id=cab8139498c7ea6b05cfdc8b4997276051b943fc Submitter: Zuul Branch: master
commit cab8139498c7ea6b05cfdc8b4997276051b943fc Author: Stephen Finucane <[email protected]> Date: Fri Jul 14 17:00:27 2017 +0100 conf: Deprecate 'keymap' options Defining the 'keymap' option in libvirt results in the '-k' option being passed through to QEMU [1][2]. This QEMU option has some uses, primarily for users interacting with QEMU via stdin on the text console. However, for users interacting with QEMU via VNC or Spice, like nova users do, it is strongly recommended to never add the "-k" option. Doing so will force QEMU to do keymap conversions which are known to be lossy. This disproportionately affects users with non-US keyboard layouts, who would be better served by relying on the guest OS to manage this. Users should instead rely on their clients and guests to correctly configure this. This is the second part of the three part deprecation cycle for these options. At this point, they are retained but deprecated them and their defaults modified to be unset. This allows us to warn users with libvirt hypervisors that have configured the options about the pitfalls of the option and give them time to prepare migration strategies, if necessary. A replacement option is added to the VMWare group to allow us to retain this functionality for that hypervisor. Combined with the above, this will allow us to remove the options in a future release. [1] https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt/blob/v1.2.9-maint/src/qemu/qemu_command.c#L6985-L6986 [2] https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt/blob/v1.2.9-maint/src/qemu/qemu_command.c#L7215-L7216 Change-Id: I9a50a111ff4911f4364a1b24d646095c72af3d2c Closes-Bug: #1682020 ** Changed in: nova Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1682020 Title: Remove nova default keymap option for qemu-kvm (deprecated) Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): Fix Released Status in OpenStack Compute (nova) pike series: In Progress Bug description: Hi, Nowdays, qemu-kvm default keymap option -k en-us, or any keymap option is deprecated. In OpenStack it renders the web console access to vm unsuable even with the proper keymap in nova.conf. For exapmle the use of 'Alt-Gr + key' combination in French, Belgium, spanish, or alike keyboard is not working, this can be problematic for hard passwords. Using the linked patch and removing/commenting the keymap options in nova.conf, makes everything working again (depending on the NoVnc version which might be patched also on previous ones). So maybe by default the nova.conf should now comment/remove this option and we need to remove the default option in the nova code. Regards, Pierre-André To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1682020/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
