Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.6 1810 vs. VirtualBox : bug with keyboard layout selection

2019-01-09 Thread Klaus Kolle
On 1/4/19 3:55 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > After some thought, it makes sense to use VirtualBox for teaching, > since many people will probably start testing Linux using VirtualBox > on Windows or macOS. Too bad the kernel bugs will prevent CentOS > 7.6.1810 from being useful there. It makes

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.6 1810 vs. VirtualBox : bug with keyboard layout selection

2019-01-04 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 04/01/2019 à 15:55, Jonathan Billings a écrit : > After some thought, it makes sense to use VirtualBox for teaching, > since many people will probably start testing Linux using VirtualBox > on Windows or macOS. Too bad the kernel bugs will prevent CentOS > 7.6.1810 from being useful there.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.6 1810 vs. VirtualBox : bug with keyboard layout selection

2019-01-04 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 5:43 AM Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 09:42:55AM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > And I'm glad to begin chapter 2 of my Introduction To Linux with > > something like "Well, folks, unfortunately you can't select a custom > > keyboard layout in

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.6 1810 vs. VirtualBox : bug with keyboard layout selection

2019-01-04 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 03:42:30PM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > My only use for VirtualBox is making screenshots of the installer, and > sometimes for a quick test, because it's easy to make a VM clone in a > single click. After some thought, it makes sense to use VirtualBox for teaching, since

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.6 1810 vs. VirtualBox : bug with keyboard layout selection

2019-01-04 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 04/01/2019 à 14:42, Jonathan Billings a écrit : > If I were running a VM on a linux system, I'd probably use > KVM/qemu/libvirt. I'm sure that was exhaustively tested. This is what I normally use. My only use for VirtualBox is making screenshots of the installer, and sometimes for a quick

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.6 1810 vs. VirtualBox : bug with keyboard layout selection

2019-01-04 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 09:42:55AM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > And I'm glad to begin chapter 2 of my Introduction To Linux with > something like "Well, folks, unfortunately you can't select a custom > keyboard layout in VirtualBox because the enterprise class Linux we > talked about in chapter

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.6 1810 vs. VirtualBox : bug with keyboard layout selection

2019-01-04 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 04/01/2019 à 09:14, Akemi Yagi a écrit : > There are known issues with VirtualBox and RHEL (therefore CentOS) 7.6. > > (1) https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3=90103 > (2) https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3=90267 > > (1) is about the GuestAdditions, so this should not

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.6 1810 vs. VirtualBox : bug with keyboard layout selection

2019-01-04 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 11:53 PM Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm currently working on my next Linux book, which will be an elementary > course about CentOS administration. I'm using VirtualBox for all the > installer screenshots. > > Since CentOS has recently been upgraded to version 7.6, I

[CentOS] CentOS 7.6 1810 vs. VirtualBox : bug with keyboard layout selection

2019-01-03 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently working on my next Linux book, which will be an elementary course about CentOS administration. I'm using VirtualBox for all the installer screenshots. Since CentOS has recently been upgraded to version 7.6, I thought I might as well base all book references on this version. So