On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 03:13:50AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Could not read keymap file: '/usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/en-us' > First, thanks for this important feedback.
I'd like to get it working too! > What I believe is happening is that qemu can't find its keyboard definition > file and just exits... :( > > xen-qemu-dm depends on qemu-system because that is the only package that > holds the keyboard definition in Debian. It is highly not wanted in a > distribution to have multiple copies of the same file. But as we don't need > the full of qemu in kvm or xen, but just the bios and keyboard definitions, > it was planned that the files would be sent to a separate binary package. > > Maybe this has already happened and I was not aware of it. Can you please use > apt-file to search for the correct dependency that is mising? Eg something > like: > > apt-file search en-us PIPE grep keymaps # apt-file search en-us | grep keymap faumachine-data: /usr/share/faumachine/keymaps/en-us kvm: /usr/share/kvm/keymaps/en-us qemu: /usr/share/qemu/keymaps/en-us qemu-kvm: /usr/share/kvm/keymaps/en-us qemu-system: /usr/share/qemu/keymaps/en-us rdesktop: /usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/en-us xen-utils-3.2-1: /usr/share/xen-3.2-1/qemu/keymaps/en-us So by the look of it the keymaps were in xen-utils-3.2 but are no longer in xen-utils-3.4 # dpkg -L xen-utils-3.4 | grep keymap # dpkg -L xen-utils-3.4 | grep en-us # > (sorry, can't fine how to type a PIPE in the N900, if you do please tell > me...) ;-) > Then I suppose that just a symlinks to that file in: > > /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/en-us > > will fix your issue with the keyboard definition. In any ways, I am VERY > interested by your feedback here, as clearly, it seems there's a dependency > or path issue here, that I didn't see (maybe because I did tests on my laptop > only, and this laptop has a shitload of stuff installed, including qemu > itself). I did this to link the keymaps into those provided by qemu-system # cd /usr/share # mkdir xen # cd xen/ # ln -s ../qemu # ls -ld /usr/share/xen/qemu lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2010-05-21 08:18 /usr/share/xen/qemu -> ../qemu And, presto, the domain starts and appears to be all working :-) -- Nick Craig-Wood <n...@craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
