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After the framework changes as mentioned in [1], It is easier to add support for non-US keyboard for console proxy. To do so one has to just add the mappings for their locale keyboard in one designated file.

To add new keyboard for console proxy add the corresponding parameters in  file consoleKeyboardOptions.jsp

for example say file consoleKeyboardOptions.jsp is looking like below

 <option value="us"><fmt:message key="label.standard.us.keyboard" /></option>
 <option value="uk"><fmt:message key="label.uk.keyboard" /></option>
 <option value="jp"><fmt:message key="label.japanese.keyboard" /></option>
 <option value="fr">French AZERTY keyboard</option>

Then to add keyboard for simplified chinese add the line as follows

 <option value="us"><fmt:message key="label.standard.us.keyboard" /></option>
 <option value="uk"><fmt:message key="label.uk.keyboard" /></option>
 <option value="jp"><fmt:message key="label.japanese.keyboard" /></option>
 <option value="fr">French AZERTY keyboard</option>
<option value="sc"><fmt:message key="label.simplified.chinese.keyboard" /></option>

Add the keyboard in file ajaxkeys.js also. Where to add the keyboard option in ajaxkeys.js will depend upon your keyboard layout.

We divide the keyboard layout into cooked keyboard and raw keyboard.

Cooked keyboard is any keyboard which is very similar to US keyboard with some keys not matching. Example UK, FR, US

Raw keyboard is any keyboard which has very different layout than US keyboard for example Japanese JP.

Add information about the events considered for above type of keyboard layouts.

 

The Keyboard mapping takes in parameters like : 
 

  • Browser
  • Guest OS
  •  BrowserVersion
  • Hypervisor
  • GuestOSDisplayName
  • Hypervisor Version

Main Files (Present in directory mentioned next to them)

[1] ajaxkeys.js : /usr/share/cloudstack-common/systemvm/js/

[2] ajaxkviewer.js : /usr/share/cloudstack-common/systemvm/js/

[3] consoleKeyboardOptions.jsp : /usr/share/cloudstack-management/webapps/client/

 

References

[1] Support for non-US keyboards in Console Proxy


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