topic Console Keyboard Layout Settings in HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

Console Keyboard Layout Settings

shiba9967 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:54:01 GMT

The terminal used to access the HVM appliance (WebUI) is equipped with a JIS keyboard.
To operate the VM using a JIS keyboard in the console, we have applied the following settings to both the WebUI and the VM:

VM
OS: Ubuntu 24.04
/etc/default/keyboard

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="jp"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

WebUI
　Navigate to: Compute > Host > [Target VM]
　Under Advanced Options, select Keyboard Layout: Japanese.

Despite these settings, the console does not use the Japanese keyboard layout.
For example, pressing Shift + 2 does not produce ", but instead outputs *.

The workaround was to explicitly specify the keymap in the VM configuration using virsh edit as shown below:

Is this behavior and solution correct?

I apologize if there are any inappropriate expressions due to machine translation

Re: Console Keyboard Layout Settings

henry78creel — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:50:06 GMT

The terminal used to access the HVM appliance (WebUI) is equipped with a JIS keyboard. To operate the VM using a JIS keyboard in the console, we applied Japanese keyboard settings on both the WebUI and the VM. The VM is running Ubuntu 24.04, and /etc/default/keyboard is configured with XKBMODEL="pc105" and XKBLAYOUT="jp". On the WebUI, we navigated to Compute > Host > [Target VM] and selected Japanese under Advanced Options > Keyboard Layout. However, despite these settings, the console does not use the Japanese e-zpassny keyboard layout; for example, pressing Shift + 2 outputs * instead of ". As a workaround, we explicitly specified the keymap in the VM configuration using virsh edit by adding keymap='ja' to the <graphics type='vnc'> section. Is this behavior expected, and is this the correct solution? I apologize if there are any inappropriate expressions.