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Choose the VM keyboard layout and carry the host's timezone into prepared images - #120
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…ared images The Y/Z swap in noVNC comes from the VM's keyboard layout not matching the guest's. vm_prompt_keyboard offers Proxmox's layouts in advanced settings; VM_KEYBOARD or the datacenter setting is the default. The layout is set on the VM with qm set --keyboard and, for images prepared with virt-customize, written as the guest's console keymap. Those images also get the host's timezone, or VM_TIMEZONE.
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Try this branchThe engine and the scripts resolve independently, so a production script can COMMUNITY_SCRIPTS_CORE_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/core/feat/vm-keyboard-timezone \
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/main/ct/debian.sh)"Swap This PR touches both backends. Worth running on a Proxmox VE and an Incus host. Run a script from a fork as wellcurl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/core/feat/vm-keyboard-timezone/tools/run.sh |
bash -s -- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/YOU/DevScripts/your-branch ct/debian.sh \
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/core/feat/vm-keyboard-timezoneNote that Useful flags while testing
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The Y/Z swap in noVNC happens when the VM's keyboard layout (
qm --keyboard, inherited from the datacenter) and the guest's layout differ.vm_prompt_keyboardoffers Proxmox's layout codes in advanced settings; the default isVM_KEYBOARD, else the datacenter'skeyboard:setting, elseen-us.vm_mark_createdsets the layout on the VM (qm set --keyboard), so installer ISOs get the Proxmox side at least.vm_prepare_cloud_imagewrites the matching console keymap into the image (/etc/default/keyboard,/etc/vconsole.conf) and sets the timezone:VM_TIMEZONE, else the host's zone.vm_prompt_keyboardis a no-op, the console layout is the client's there.Tests: a new case in
tests/vm-helpers.sh(42 pass); the generated keymap command was run against a Debian 13 container and producesXKBLAYOUT="de"/KEYMAP=de-latin1, andch+ variantfr/fr_CH-latin1forfr-ch.DevScripts: every VM script calls
vm_prompt_keyboardin advanced settings; that commit follows once this is on main.