[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#651250: VirtualBox set a wrong VNC keymap

[Daniel Bareiro]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 3.2.4-dfsg-1~bpo50+1
Severity: normal



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.9
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to es_AR.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii  adduser             3.110                add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6               2.7-18lenny7         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3            7.18.2-8lenny5       Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgcc1             1:4.3.2-1.1          GCC support library
ii  libpng12-0          1.2.27-2+lenny5      PNG library - runtime
ii  libsdl1.2debian     1.2.13-2             Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libssl0.9.8         0.9.8g-15+lenny14    SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6          4.3.2-1.1            The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvncserver0       0.9.3.dfsg.1-1       API to write one's own vnc server
ii  libx11-6            2:1.1.5-2            X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1         1:1.1.9-1            X cursor management library
ii  libxext6            2:1.0.4-2            X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2             2.6.32.dfsg-5+lenny4 GNOME XML library
ii  libxmu6             2:1.0.4-1            X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6              1:1.0.5-3            X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  python              2.5.2-3              An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central      0.6.8                register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python2.5           2.5.2-15+lenny1      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12    compression library - runtime

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [li 7.0.3-7              A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libqt4-opengl       4.4.3-1+lenny1       Qt 4 OpenGL module
ii  libqtcore4          4.4.3-1+lenny1       Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4           4.4.3-1+lenny1       Qt 4 GUI module
ii  virtualbox-ose-dkms 3.2.4-dfsg-1~bpo50+1 x86 virtualization solution - kern
ii  virtualbox-ose-qt   3.2.4-dfsg-1~bpo50+1 x86 virtualization solution - Qt b

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose suggests:
ii  libasound2               1.0.16-2        ALSA library
ii  libpulse0                0.9.10-3+lenny2 PulseAudio client libraries
pn  vde2                     <none>          (no description available)
pn  virtualbox-guest-additio <none>          (no description available)

-- no debconf information


I'm using VirtualBox OSE on a host without a GUI and I'm trying to
connect via VNC to install a VM with Debian Squeeze. The syntax I use on
VirtualBox OSE to start the VM is the following:


$ VBoxHeadless -startvm Debian --vnc --vncport 5901


But it seems that the keyboard is misconfigured. I have a spanish
keyboard and, for example, if I type ":" I get an "Ñ", or pressing ")" I
get an "=".

I tried several clients (xtightvncviewer and xvnc4viewer) and I found
the same behavior on VirtualBox 3.2.4 (Lenny Backports) and VirtualBox
3.2.10 (Squeeze). Doing the same test on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE using
VirtualBox OSE installed from updated ports (4.0.14_OSEr74382), also get
the same behavior, which makes me think that this is some bug in
VirtualBox VNC code.



Thanks in advance.


Regards,
Daniel
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