Hypervisor Console Keyboards

HVM VMs support guest console access as well as hypervisor console access. For each HVM VM, users can set a keyboard layout configuration which will then be set for use on each session.

Important

This feature requires HVM Host agent version 3.0.3 or greater. Upgrade the host agent from the host detail page for each host by expanding the ACTIONS menu and clicking “Upgrade Agent.” Alternatively, select “Download Agent Script” to download a script to run against the host manually from a terminal session. These scripts are specific to each host so you must download a script for each host and run the correct script against the correct host.

Supported Keyboard Layouts

  • Dutch (Belgium)

  • French (Belgium)

  • German

  • Italian

  • English (United Kingdom)

  • English (United States)

  • French

  • Spanish

  • German (Switzerland)

  • Finnish

  • French (Switzerland)

  • Icelandic

  • Norwegian

  • Portuguese

  • Danish

Setting the Keyboard Layout

  1. Navigate to Infrastructure ‣ Clusters

  2. From the list of Clusters, select the appropriate HVM Cluster

  3. Click on the VMs tab

  4. Click on the hyperlinked “name” value of the appropriate HVM VM

  5. Click EDIT

  6. Expand the Advanced Options section

  7. In the KEYBOARD LAYOUT field, select the desired keyboard localization

  8. Click SAVE CHANGES

Using the Configured Keyboard Layout

  1. Navigate to Infrastructure ‣ Clusters

  2. From the list of Clusters, select the appropriate HVM Cluster

  3. Click on the VMs tab

  4. Click on the hyperlinked “name” value of the appropriate HVM VM

  5. Click on the Console tab

  6. Click on the dropdown labeled GUEST and change the selection to Hypervisor

  7. Click on the keyboard icon and see the keyboard layout has changed to the selected layout